European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Drawknife in use again.
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Applying a hot tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Still cooling off.
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
A 12 spoked wheel
Fitting the hot tyre
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
The second tyre being hammered in place
Shaping with a drawknife
Clamped in place for tyring
Welding a hub band
Cleaning up the tyre
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Using a press on the tyre
Marking out a felloe
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up the felloes
Sawing off the spoke ends
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Fitting the felloes together
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Adzes awaiting handles
Checking the tyre circumference
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
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