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