European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Still cooling off.
Letting off steam
Welding the tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Welding the tyre joint
Boring a hub the traditional way
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
The second tyre being hammered in place
Adzes awaiting handles
Cleaning up
Welding
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Detail of the wheel
An example of wheel making in the past
Drawknife in use
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Shaping with a rasp
Close up of the clamping
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling the hot tyre
Field gun wheels
A pile of iron hubs
Drawknife in use again.
Using a chipping hammer
Cooling the tyre down
Shaped handles just made.
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding a tyre
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