Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Applying a hot tyre
Close up of the hub
Shaping with a drawknife
Shaped handles just made.
Letting off steam
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Wheel in position for the tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Drawknife in use
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Welding a tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cleaning up the felloes
Welding the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Cleaning up the tyre
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Dampening the flames
An example of wheel making in the past
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
The hot tyre in place
Shaping with a rasp
Using a chipping hammer
Sawing off the spoke ends
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use again.
Shaping an adze handle
Second tyre being hammered into place
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Spot welding
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Cleaning up
Cooling the hot tyre
Tyre nearly in place
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Detail of the wheel
Cleaning up
Second tyre nearly in place
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Cooling the tyre down
Drawknife in use on the felloes
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