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