European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up the weld
Fitting the hot tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cooling down
Welding
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Drawknife in use
Shaping with a rasp
A taper auger
Cleaning up the felloes
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
The second tyre being hammered in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Cleaning up the tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
An example of wheel making in the past
Trimming with a drawknife
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Detail of the wheel
Welding the tyre joint
Welding the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Fitting the felloes together
Close up of the hub
Initial shaping
Field gun wheels
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Adzes awaiting handles
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Tail vice and dog
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