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