European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaping an adze handle
Using a press on the tyre
Clamping the wheel down
Adzes awaiting handles
Drawknife in use
Tail vice and dog
An example of wheel making in the past
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Welding a tyre
Second tyre being hammered into place
Spot welding
Cooling the hot tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cleaning up the tyre
Cleaning up
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up
Trimming with a drawknife
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a rasp
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
Field gun wheels
Still cooling off.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use again.
Cleaning up the felloes
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre joint
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Shaping with a rasp
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
Cooling down
Using a chipping hammer
Close up of the hub
Wheel in position for the tyre
An interesting wheel!
Second tyre nearly in place
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Tyre nearly in place
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