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