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