European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up
Letting off steam
Cooling the tyre down
Welding the tyre joint
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Field gun wheels
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Clamping the wheel down
Spot welding
An example of the wheelwrights art
Initial shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Using a rasp
A few finishing taps
Hammering the tyre into place
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling the hot tyre
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Applying a hot tyre
Wheel in position for the tyre
Close up of the hub
Close up of the clamping
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use
Trimming the felloes
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Trimming with a drawknife
Using a press on the tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Clamped in place for tyring
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping an adze handle
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up
The second tyre being hammered in place
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Marking out a felloe
The first stage in shaping
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Dampening the flames
Drawknife in use
Welding
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
A wheel in need of repair
Welding a hub band
A 12 spoked wheel
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub the traditional way
An example of wheel making in the past
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding a hub band
Second tyre nearly in place
Fitting the hot tyre
An interesting wheel!
Field gun wheels
Sawing off the spoke ends
Detail of the wheel
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Welding the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A taper auger
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