European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Boring a hub the traditional way
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Dampening the flames
Welding a tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Letting off steam
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up
Shaping with a rasp
Cooling down
Clamping the wheel down
Cooling the tyre down
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A pile of iron hubs
Cleaning up the tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
The hot tyre in place
Detail of the wheel
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
The first stage in shaping
Field gun wheels
Second tyre nearly in place
Welding a hub band
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A wheel in need of repair
Cleaning up the weld
Shaped handles just made.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Using a rasp
Drawknife in use shaping
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use
Welding a hub band
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Using a press on the tyre join
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Adzes awaiting handles
Close up of the clamping
An example of the wheelwrights art
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