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