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