European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding a hub band
Cooling down
Boring a hub the traditional way
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Hammering the tyre into place
Shaped handles just made.
Still cooling off.
Clamping the wheel down
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Dampening the flames
Using a press on the tyre join
Cooling the tyre down
Using a rasp
Second tyre being hammered into place
Second tyre nearly in place
Fitting the hot tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Marking out a felloe
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
A traveller in use on the wheel.
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Tyre nearly in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Cleaning up
Cleaning up the tyre
Close up of the clamping
Cooling the hot tyre
Adzes awaiting handles
Drawknife in use
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Welding the tyre joint
Clamped in place for tyring
A wheel in need of repair
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Spot welding
Drawknife in use
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