European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up with the drawknife
The second tyre being hammered in place
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use shaping
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Drawknife in use again.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A pile of iron hubs
Shaping an adze handle
Using a rasp
Trimming with a drawknife
An interesting wheel!
Shaping with a rasp
Cooling the hot tyre
The first stage in shaping
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
A wheel in need of repair
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Field gun wheels
Boring a hub the traditional way
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Tail vice and dog
Adzes awaiting handles
Wheel in position for the tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Applying a hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding a hub band
A few finishing taps
Dampening the flames
Second tyre being hammered into place
Field gun wheels
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a tyre
Drawknife in use
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
An example of wheel making in the past
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Still cooling off.
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Shaped handles just made.
Cleaning up the weld
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Close up of the hub
Fitting the felloes together
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Spot welding
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding
A taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding a hub band
An example of the wheelwrights art
Welding the tyre joint
Close up of the clamping
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cooling down
Drawknife in use
Tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up
A 12 spoked wheel
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding the tyre
The hot tyre in place
Cooling the tyre down
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