Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaping with a rasp
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a chipping hammer
Trimming the felloes
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Drawknife in use again.
Tyre nearly in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Spot welding
Clamped in place for tyring
The first stage in shaping
Letting off steam
Welding the tyre
Field gun wheels
Field gun wheels
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Wheel in position for the tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Fitting the hot tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Welding a hub band
A pile of iron hubs
Marking out a felloe
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the felloes
Drawknife in use
Using a press on the tyre
Close up of the clamping
Welding the tyre joint
Checking the tyre circumference
Shaping with a drawknife
Close up of the hub
Cooling down
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Trimming with a drawknife
Fitting the felloes together
Welding a tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Drawknife in use shaping
An example of wheel making in the past
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Clamping the wheel down
An interesting wheel!
Welding
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cleaning up the weld
Second tyre nearly in place
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Welding the tyre
Boring a hub the traditional way
Shaped handles just made.
Tail vice and dog
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A wheel in need of repair
An example of the wheelwrights art
Adzes awaiting handles
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a press on the tyre join
A taper auger
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