European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Tail vice and dog
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use
Second tyre being hammered into place
Welding the tyre joint
Welding
Detail of the wheel
Cleaning up
Field gun wheels
Shaping with a rasp
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Applying a hot tyre
Wheel awaiting a tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a hub band
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Using a chipping hammer
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Using a press on the tyre join
An interesting wheel!
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a press on the tyre
Using a rasp
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Shaped handles just made.
Clamped in place for tyring
Letting off steam
Tyre nearly in place
Shaping with a rasp
A taper auger
Dampening the flames
Wheel in position for the tyre
Still cooling off.
Adzes awaiting handles
Boring a hub the traditional way
Trimming with a drawknife
Shaping an adze handle
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cooling the tyre down
Field gun wheels
Second tyre nearly in place
Spot welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Sawing off the spoke ends
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A few finishing taps
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Cleaning up
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