European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Drawknife in use again.
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding a tyre
Trimming the felloes
Preparing the wheel for tyring
Cooling down
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding a hub band
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Using a rasp
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Checking the tyre circumference
A wheel in need of repair
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cooling the tyre down
Still cooling off.
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Using a chipping hammer
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Shaping an adze handle
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Initial shaping
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A taper auger
Field gun wheels
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
An interesting wheel!
Clamped in place for tyring
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Applying a hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Cleaning up the tyre
Tail vice and dog
Shaping with a rasp
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cleaning up the weld
Boring a hub the traditional way
Sawing off the spoke ends
Fitting the felloes together
Clamping the wheel down
Drawknife in use
Letting off steam
Spot welding
An example of wheel making in the past
Welding
The second tyre being hammered in place
Drawknife in use shaping
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cooling the hot tyre
Using a press on the tyre
Drawknife in use
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Second tyre nearly in place
The first stage in shaping
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding the tyre joint
Drawknife in use
Marking out a felloe
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Dampening the flames
Sawing off the spoke ends
Close up of the clamping
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