Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Cooling the hot tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Welding a hub band
Field gun wheels
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
An example of wheel making in the past
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Second tyre nearly in place
A few finishing taps
Shaping an adze handle
Trimming with a drawknife
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Marking out a felloe
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Using a rasp
Using a press on the tyre join
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Fitting the felloes together
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use
Letting off steam
Initial shaping
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Spot welding
Welding the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Still cooling off.
Cooling down
A pile of iron hubs
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding the tyre joint
Close up of the clamping
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
The second tyre being hammered in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Boring a hub the traditional way
Fitting the hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Drawknife in use again.
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Detail of the wheel
Drawknife in use
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
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