European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
The hot tyre in place
Close up of the clamping
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cooling down
Shaped handles just made.
Shaping with a drawknife
Close up of the hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Second tyre nearly in place
Dampening the flames
Trimming with a drawknife
The second tyre being hammered in place
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding the tyre
Welding the tyre joint
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Drawknife in use shaping
Still cooling off.
Cooling the tyre down
An example of wheel making in the past
Clamped in place for tyring
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Tail vice and dog
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Using a chipping hammer
Welding
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Fitting the hot tyre
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