European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cleaning up the tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
An example of the wheelwrights art
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up
Tyre nearly in place
An interesting wheel!
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Wheel in position for the tyre
Field gun wheels
The second tyre being hammered in place
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Cooling down
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Second tyre nearly in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Detail of the wheel
Initial shaping
Trimming the felloes
Cooling the hot tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
The first stage in shaping
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre joint
Using a press on the tyre join
Second tyre being hammered into place
Shaped handles just made.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
Welding
Drawknife in use
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