Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Initial shaping
Cleaning up the weld
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Cleaning up the tyre
Spot welding
Welding the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Drawknife in use shaping
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping with a drawknife
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
An example of wheel making in the past
Drawknife in use again.
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a hub band
Marking out a felloe
Shaping with a rasp
Close up of the hub
A pile of iron hubs
Shaped handles just made.
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Welding the tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Dampening the flames
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up
An example of the wheelwrights art
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Welding a hub band
Sawing off the spoke ends
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Welding a tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Clamping the wheel down
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up the felloes
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding
Detail of the wheel
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