European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up the felloes
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Welding the tyre joint
Letting off steam
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Cooling down
A traveller in use on the wheel.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Detail of the wheel
Shaping with a rasp
Second tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
Hammering the tyre into place
Marking out a felloe
Adzes awaiting handles
A 12 spoked wheel
Trimming with a drawknife
Spot welding
Shaping an adze handle
Cooling the hot tyre
Wheel in position for the tyre
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Cleaning up
Using a press on the tyre
Drawknife in use again.
Using a press on the tyre join
Cleaning up
Shaped handles just made.
Fitting the felloes together
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Clamping the wheel down
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Sawing off the spoke ends
Close up of the hub
An example of wheel making in the past
Tyre nearly in place
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