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