European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cleaning up the felloes
Cleaning up the tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Shaping an adze handle
Welding the tyre
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
An interesting wheel!
Cleaning up the tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
The second tyre being hammered in place
Drawknife in use shaping
Marking out a felloe
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up
Hammering the tyre into place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Fitting the hot tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A wheel in need of repair
Drawknife in use on the felloes
An example of the wheelwrights art
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Cleaning up the weld
Welding
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