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