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