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