European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Using a rasp
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Welding a tyre
An interesting wheel!
Initial shaping
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up
Tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up the tyre
Close up of the clamping
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Applying a hot tyre
Welding a hub band
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Drawknife in use shaping
Cooling down
Cleaning up the tyre
Detail of the wheel
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Shaping with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping an adze handle
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cooling the tyre down
Welding
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Sawing off the spoke ends
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Clamped in place for tyring
An example of wheel making in the past
Fitting the hot tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Still cooling off.
Field gun wheels
Drawknife in use
A pile of iron hubs
A taper auger
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Close up of the hub
Second tyre being hammered into place
A wheel in need of repair
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Cleaning up the weld
Spot welding
Tail vice and dog
Drawknife in use again.
Using a chipping hammer
The hot tyre in place
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Letting off steam
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Drawknife in use
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
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