European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Close up of the hub
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Drawknife in use again.
Using a press on the tyre join
Boring a hub the traditional way
Shaped handles just made.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping an adze handle
An interesting wheel!
Sawing off the spoke ends
Adzes awaiting handles
A 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
Initial shaping
Wheel in position for the tyre
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A few finishing taps
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
The hot tyre in place
Shaping with a rasp
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Shaping with a rasp
Cooling the hot tyre
Still cooling off.
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Shaping with a drawknife
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding a hub band
The first stage in shaping
A wheel in need of repair
Cleaning up
Drawknife in use
Applying a hot tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Trimming with a drawknife
Checking the tyre circumference
Fitting the felloes together
Cooling down
Close up of the clamping
Sawing off the spoke ends
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Field gun wheels
Dampening the flames
Using a press on the tyre
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