European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a rasp
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Second tyre nearly in place
Shaping an adze handle
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Boring a hub the traditional way
Tail vice and dog
Welding a tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Using a press on the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
An interesting wheel!
The second tyre being hammered in place
Field gun wheels
Cleaning up the weld
Using a chipping hammer
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaped handles just made.
Close up of the hub
Shaping with a rasp
Hammering the tyre into place
A taper auger
Letting off steam
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Shaping with a rasp
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up the tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding the tyre
Cooling down
Spot welding
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A few finishing taps
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Field gun wheels
Applying a hot tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Boring a hub with a taper auger
The hot tyre in place
An example of wheel making in the past
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use
A pile of iron hubs
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cleaning up
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Shaping with a drawknife
Clamping the wheel down
Cooling the tyre down
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cleaning up
Welding the tyre joint
Trimming the felloes
Fitting the felloes together
Drawknife in use
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a rasp to shape a notch
The first stage in shaping
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Detail of the wheel
A wheel in need of repair
Cooling the hot tyre
Welding the tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Welding a hub band
Marking out a felloe
Close up of the clamping
Welding a hub band
Welding
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Sawing off the spoke ends
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Cleaning up the felloes
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