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