Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use
Detail of the wheel
Adzes awaiting handles
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Second tyre nearly in place
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A wheel in need of repair
Clamping the wheel down
Sawing off the spoke ends
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Drawknife in use
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
A 12 spoked wheel
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up the felloes
Field gun wheels
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Welding the tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Tyre nearly in place
The second tyre being hammered in place
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Checking the tyre circumference
Cleaning up the weld
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Close up of the clamping
Welding
Welding a tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Shaping with a rasp
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Shaping with a drawknife
Cooling the hot tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Shaped handles just made.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding a hub band
Spot welding
An interesting wheel!
An example of wheel making in the past
Sawing off the spoke ends
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Shaping with a rasp
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Still cooling off.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Shaping an adze handle
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Welding the tyre joint
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Trimming the felloes
Drawknife in use shaping
Wheel awaiting a tyre
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