European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Field gun wheels
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Trimming the felloes
Shaped handles just made.
An example of wheel making in the past
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A 12 spoked wheel
Cooling the hot tyre
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up the weld
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding
Cleaning up with the drawknife
An example of the wheelwrights art
An interesting wheel!
Welding a hub band
Marking out a felloe
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up the felloes
Tail vice and dog
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a rasp
Detail of the wheel
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
A few finishing taps
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Using a press on the tyre
Fitting the hot tyre
Spot welding
Shaping with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
Close up of the clamping
Using a press on the tyre join
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Shaping with a rasp
Welding the tyre joint
Sawing off the spoke ends
Hammering the tyre into place
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cleaning up the tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding a tyre
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the tyre
The hot tyre in place
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
A pile of iron hubs
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
A taper auger
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
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