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