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