European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cooling the hot tyre
Close up of the clamping
Adzes awaiting handles
Detail of the wheel
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Applying a hot tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
A 12 spoked wheel
The first stage in shaping
Using a press on the tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use shaping
Fitting the felloes together
Spot welding
Drawknife in use
Second tyre nearly in place
Drawknife in use
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Drawknife in use again.
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Clamped in place for tyring
Shaping with a drawknife
A few finishing taps
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cleaning up the felloes
Welding the tyre joint
Welding the tyre
Field gun wheels
An example of the wheelwrights art
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Clamping the wheel down
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Second tyre being hammered into place
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Field gun wheels
Welding the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cooling down
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Shaping with a rasp
The hot tyre in place
Using a rasp
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up the weld
Welding a tyre
An interesting wheel!
Sawing off the spoke ends
Marking out a felloe
Cleaning up the tyre
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