European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Applying a hot tyre
Drawknife in use
Shaping an adze handle
Boring a hub the traditional way
A 12 spoked wheel
Tyre nearly in place
Welding the tyre
Using a rasp
A few finishing taps
The first stage in shaping
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Shaping with a rasp
Wheel in position for the tyre
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Clamped in place for tyring
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
Detail of the wheel
A taper auger
Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
Second tyre being hammered into place
Drawknife in use
Second tyre nearly in place
Trimming the felloes
Close up of the hub
Sawing off the spoke ends
Welding a tyre
Cleaning up the tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Welding the tyre joint
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
An example of the wheelwrights art
Trimming with a drawknife
Cleaning up the weld
Close up of the clamping
Drawknife in use
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Field gun wheels
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Cooling the hot tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
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