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