European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Field gun wheels
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Using a press on the tyre
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Letting off steam
Trimming with a drawknife
Second tyre being hammered into place
Cooling the tyre down
Spot welding
Welding
Shaping with a drawknife
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Using a chipping hammer
Shaping with a rasp
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Second tyre nearly in place
An example of the wheelwrights art
Applying a hot tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Drawknife in use again.
The hot tyre in place
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Using a rasp
Cleaning up the felloes
Shaping with a rasp
Field gun wheels
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding a tyre
Shaped handles just made.
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Boring a hub with a taper auger
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use
Cooling the hot tyre
Detail of the wheel
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Welding the tyre
Close up of the clamping
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