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