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