European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up the weld
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding the tyre
Marking out a felloe
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Using a rasp
A few finishing taps
Welding
Welding the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up the felloes
Second tyre nearly in place
Field gun wheels
An example of wheel making in the past
Shaped handles just made.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
An example of the wheelwrights art
Cooling the tyre down
Field gun wheels
Using a press on the tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up
Cleaning up the tyre
A wheel in need of repair
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Wheel in position for the tyre
Dampening the flames
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a chipping hammer
Trimming with a drawknife
Spot welding
Cleaning up
Welding the tyre
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Fitting the hot tyre
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