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