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