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