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