European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Drawknife in use shaping
Trimming with a drawknife
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
The hot tyre in place
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Wheel in position for the tyre
Letting off steam
Applying a hot tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Shaping an adze handle
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Second tyre nearly in place
Cooling down
Field gun wheels
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cooling the hot tyre
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Clamping the wheel down
Close up of the hub
An example of the wheelwrights art
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Sawing off the spoke ends
Second tyre being hammered into place
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Cleaning up the tyre
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
The first stage in shaping
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Shaping with a rasp
Shaping with a rasp
A 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the felloes
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding the tyre joint
Shaping with a drawknife
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cleaning up
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Cleaning up
Tail vice and dog
Boring a hub the traditional way
A wheel in need of repair
The second tyre being hammered in place
Using a rasp
Tyre nearly in place
Close up of the clamping
Welding the tyre
Welding
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Still cooling off.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Shaped handles just made.
Cooling the tyre down
Trimming the felloes
Welding a hub band
Fitting the hot tyre
Dampening the flames
Spot welding
Using a press on the tyre
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