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