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