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