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