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