European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Letting off steam
Field gun wheels
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Welding a tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cooling the hot tyre
Tail vice and dog
Marking out a felloe
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the weld
Using a rasp
Adzes awaiting handles
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up
Fitting the hot tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Drawknife in use shaping
Spot welding
A 12 spoked wheel
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use
Wheel in position for the tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Cooling the tyre down
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling down
Using a chipping hammer
Using a press on the tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
The first stage in shaping
Tyre nearly in place
The hot tyre in place
Shaping an adze handle
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Initial shaping
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
A pile of iron hubs
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
A taper auger
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Drawknife in use
The second tyre being hammered in place
Applying a hot tyre
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