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