European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Shaping with a drawknife
A taper auger
Fitting the felloes together
Cooling down
Initial shaping
Cleaning up the tyre
Drawknife in use
Tail vice and dog
Trimming the felloes
Shaped handles just made.
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
Welding
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Fitting the hot tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Cooling the hot tyre
A pile of iron hubs
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Shaping with a rasp
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Welding a hub band
Welding an iron band for a wheel hub
Hammering the tyre into place
Welding the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Clamped in place for tyring
Drawknife in use shaping
Checking the tyre circumference
Wheel awaiting a tyre
A 12 spoked wheel
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up the tyre
Field gun wheels
Using a press on the tyre join
An example of the wheelwrights art
Second tyre nearly in place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Cleaning up
Welding a hub band
Wheel in position for the tyre
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Letting off steam
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
A wheel in need of repair
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use again.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a chipping hammer
Field gun wheels
Close up of the hub
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Detail of the wheel
The hot tyre in place
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Welding the tyre joint
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
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