European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Second tyre nearly in place
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cleaning up the felloes
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Dampening the flames
Sawing off the spoke ends
Still cooling off.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Boring a hub the traditional way
An interesting wheel!
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up
A few finishing taps
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Welding a tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Initial shaping
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Field gun wheels
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Letting off steam
Checking the tyre circumference
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Tyre nearly in place
Clamped in place for tyring
The second tyre being hammered in place
Welding the tyre
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Cooling the hot tyre
Trimming with a drawknife
Drawknife in use
Trimming the felloes
Cleaning up the tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Field gun wheels
Marking out a felloe
Drawknife in use
Fitting the felloes together
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Using a press on the tyre join
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Welding the tyre joint
Using a rasp
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Shaping with a rasp
Close up of the clamping
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