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