European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
A pile of iron hubs
The first stage in shaping
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Sawing off the spoke ends
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Using a chipping hammer
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Hammering the tyre into place
An example of wheel making in the past
Wheel awaiting a tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cleaning up the tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Checking the tyre circumference
An interesting wheel!
Clamping the wheel down
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Tyre nearly in place
A 12 spoked wheel
Shaping with a rasp
Clamped in place for tyring
Applying a hot tyre
Detail of the wheel
Fitting the felloes together
A taper auger
Cooling down
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Welding
Boring a hub the traditional way
Field gun wheels
A few finishing taps
Adzes awaiting handles
Fitting the hot tyre
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cleaning up the weld
Tail vice and dog
Fitting a heated tyre on the wheel
Welding the tyre
Welding the tyre joint
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Using a press on the tyre join
Cleaning up
Field gun wheels
Using a press on the tyre
Spot welding
Welding the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Marking out a felloe
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming with a drawknife
Welding a hub band
Drawknife in use
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Shaping with a rasp
A wheel in need of repair
Cooling the hot tyre
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Sawing off the spoke ends
Close up of the clamping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up
Close up of the hub
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