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