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