European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Welding a tyre
Cooling down
Adzes awaiting handles
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Hammering the tyre into place
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Welding a hub band
Still cooling off.
Sawing off the spoke ends
Letting off steam
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Boring a hub the traditional way
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp
Tail vice and dog
Drawknife in use on the felloes
A pile of iron hubs
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Welding the tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Welding the tyre
Drawknife in use shaping
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Applying a hot tyre
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Marking out a felloe
Welding the tyre
Detail of the wheel
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Shaping with a rasp
Spot welding
Cooling the tyre down
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
An example of wheel making in the past
Initial shaping
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Shaping with a drawknife
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up the tyre
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Close up of the hub
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding
The hot tyre in place
Tyre nearly in place
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Dampening the flames
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Cooling the hot tyre
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
An example of the wheelwrights art
An interesting wheel!
A wheel in need of repair
A 12 spoked wheel
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