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