Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use shaping
The hot tyre in place
Initial shaping
Using a rasp
Using a chipping hammer
Cooling down
Tyre nearly in place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
An example of wheel making in the past
Boring a hub the traditional way
Adzes awaiting handles
Trimming the felloes
An interesting wheel!
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping with a rasp
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Close up of the clamping
Still cooling off.
Close up of the hub
Tail vice and dog
Sawing off the spoke ends
A wheel in need of repair
Welding a tyre
Cleaning up the weld
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Dampening the flames
Welding the tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cleaning up the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A pile of iron hubs
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a drawknife
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Detail of the wheel
Wheel in position for the tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up
Field gun wheels
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a press on the tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
A taper auger
Cleaning up
Second tyre being hammered into place
Marking out a felloe
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
The first stage in shaping
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding the tyre
Shaped handles just made.
Checking the tyre circumference
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Drawknife in use
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cooling the hot tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cooling the tyre down
Second tyre nearly in place
A 12 spoked wheel
Shaping an adze handle
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