European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding the tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling the tyre down
Spot welding
An example of wheel making in the past
Field gun wheels
Wheel in position for the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Shaping with a rasp
An interesting wheel!
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use shaping
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Shaping with a rasp
The first stage in shaping
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Still cooling off.
Dampening the flames
Cleaning up
Letting off steam
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Using a chipping hammer
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Drawknife in use
A taper auger
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaping with a drawknife
Marking out a felloe
Cooling the hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Welding a hub band
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Applying a hot tyre
Close up of the hub
Second tyre being hammered into place
Tyre nearly in place
Wheel awaiting a tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
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