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