European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaped handles just made.
Drawknife in use
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Dampening the flames
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Shaping with a drawknife
Letting off steam
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
An example of the wheelwrights art
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
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