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