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