European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Trimming with a drawknife
A 12 spoked wheel
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Adzes awaiting handles
Hammering the tyre into place
Initial shaping
Close up of the clamping
Tyre nearly in place
Welding a hub band
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
The first stage in shaping
An example of wheel making in the past
Applying a hot tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use shaping
Wheel in position for the tyre
Welding a hub band
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cleaning up
Field gun wheels
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Close up of the hub
Using a chipping hammer
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the felloes
Welding the tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cooling the hot tyre
Letting off steam
The second tyre being hammered in place
Checking the tyre circumference
A wheel in need of repair
Welding the tyre joint
Drawknife in use
Shaping with a rasp
Second tyre being hammered into place
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Boring a hub the traditional way
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Shaping with a rasp
A pile of iron hubs
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Using a press on the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Still cooling off.
Drawknife in use
An interesting wheel!
Tail vice and dog
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Trimming the felloes
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use again.
A few finishing taps
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Dampening the flames
The hot tyre in place
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding a tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Welding the tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Clamping the wheel down
Welding
Clamped in place for tyring
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
Fitting the hot tyre
Detail of the wheel
A taper auger
Shaping an adze handle
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cleaning up
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
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