Using a traveller to measure a wheel circumference
A corner of the wheelwrights shop
Trimming with a drawknife
Shaping an adze handle
European style wooden plane in use on a tool handle.
Checking the size of the tyre with a traveller
Spot welding
A traveller in use on the wheel.
Drawknife in use
Field gun wheels
Cooling down while the trye is hammered in place
The second tyre being hammered in place
Clamping the wheel down
There is a wheel somewhere under the steam
Cleaning up with an angle grinder
Cleaning up the weld
Drawknife in use
Fitting the hot tyre
Welding
Checking the tyre circumference
Second tyre nearly in place
Cleaning up with the drawknife
Using a press on the tyre join
Shaping with a drawknife
Drawknife in use shaping
Using a rasp to shape a notch
Cleaning up the tyre
A taper auger in use boring a wheel hub
Boring a hub the traditional way
A few finishing taps
Close up of the clamping
Boring a hub with a taper auger
Tyre nearly in place
Bow saw in use cleaning up spoke ends
Applying a hot tyre
Letting off steam
An interesting wheel!
Detail of a 12 spoked wheel
Using a press on the tyre
Fitting the felloes together
Clamping the tyre ready for welding
Cooling down
Adzes awaiting handles
Wheel awaiting a tyre
The hot tyre in place
Drawknife in use
Cleaning up
Cleaning up the felloes
Initial shaping
Laying the wheel on the tyring stand
Tail vice and dog
Welding the tyre
Welding a hub band
Welding the tyre
A long job in hand in the wheelwrights shop.
A taper auger
Cooling the hot tyre
Newly made wheel awaiting a tyre
Cooling the tyre down
Still cooling off.
Dampening the flames
Checking the tyre is properly fitted.
Cleaning up
Large bow saw in use on spoke ends
Wheel in position for the tyre
An example of wheel making in the past
Shaping with a rasp
Hammering the tyre into place
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