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