Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Welding the tyre
Initial shaping
A wheel in need of repair
A few finishing touches to the second tyre
The second tyre being hammered in place
Fitting the felloes together
Using a press on the tyre join
Drawknife in use on the felloes
Trimming the felloes to shape with a drawknife
Shaping an adze handle
Cleaning up
Applying a hot tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
Welding the tyre
Welding a tyre
Drawknife in use
Clamping the wheel down
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Not just a wheelwright but a rakemaker too.
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
A pile of iron hubs
Second tyre nearly in place
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Tyre nearly in place
Using a press on the tyre
Cleaning up the felloes
Wheel awaiting a tyre
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Drawknife in use again.
Cleaning up the tyre
Close up of the hub
Close up of the clamping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cooling the hot tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
A taper auger
Dampening the flames
Shaping with a drawknife
Still cooling off.
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Drawknife in use
Using a taper auger on a wheel hub
Marking out a felloe
Adzes awaiting handles
Sawing off the spoke ends
Cooling down
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Clamped in place for tyring
Wheel in position for the tyre
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