European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up the weld
An example of wheel making in the past
An example of the wheelwrights art
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up
Welding
A few finishing taps
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
A pile of iron hubs
Still cooling off.
Drawknife in use
Drawknife in use again.
Drawknife in use
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Sawing off the spoke ends
Spot welding
Welding a tyre
Initial shaping
Welding the tyre joint
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Field gun wheels
Close up of the clamping
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Using a press on the tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding the tyre
Welding a hub band
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Boring a hub the traditional way
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Field gun wheels
Second tyre nearly in place
Close up of the hub
Tyre nearly in place
The first stage in shaping
Cleaning up
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Shaping with a rasp
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