Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Dampening the flames
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Tail vice and dog
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Cleaning up
Shaping an adze handle
The second tyre being hammered in place
Boring a hub the traditional way
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Sawing off the spoke ends
An example of wheel making in the past
Welding the tyre
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Shaping with a rasp
Second tyre being hammered into place
Shaping with a drawknife
Close up of the clamping
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Close up of the hub
Using a rasp
Welding a hub band
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Trimming the felloes
A 12 spoked wheel
Clamped in place for tyring
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Drawknife in use shaping
Applying a hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Still cooling off.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Cleaning up the tyre
Wheel in position for the tyre
Second tyre nearly in place
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Drawknife in use
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
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