European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding a tyre
Using a press on the tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cooling down
Tyre nearly in place
Shaping with a rasp
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Welding the tyre
The first stage in shaping
Fitting the hot tyre
Cooling the hot tyre
Letting off steam
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Dampening the flames
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Close up of the clamping
Boring a hub the traditional way
Clamping the wheel down
Sawing off the spoke ends
Still cooling off.
Spot welding
Applying a hot tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use on the felloes
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