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