wheelwrighting
Building wooden wheels
Wheelwrighting is the craft of building and repairing wooden wheels, particularly for carts, wagons, and carriages.
The trade required expertise in shaping spokes, rims, and hubs, then assembling them into a durable wheel.
Once essential to transportation, wheelwrighting is now largely a heritage craft: He learned wheelwrighting from his grandfather, one of the last practicing in the county.
Central connection point
- spokesRods connecting hub to rim
- rimCircular outer boundary
- truingCorrecting to exact form
- dishingSpreading talk informally
tensioning · fitting · clamping · measuring · roundness · boxing · nave · linchpin
Rods connecting hub to rim
- hubCentral connection point
- rimCircular outer boundary
- axleShaft for wheel rotation
- tenonProjecting joint piece
mortise · joinery · lathe · chisel · plane · timber · hardwood · grain
Iron-shaping craftsperson
- forgeFurnace for shaping metal
- anvilMetal-shaping block
- hammerTool for striking nails
- hoopingSpinning rings around torso
farrier · ironwork · strake · bond · welding · quenching · heating
Wheeled hauling vehicle
dray · wheelbarrow · handcart · stagecoach · oxcart · chariot · sulky · buckboard
Learning trade through employment
- guildsCraftsmen's mutual aid societies
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- masterAuthority or controller
- artisanSkilled manual tradesperson
handicraft · wainwright · old-world · time-honored · preservation · conservation · legacy · demonstration
hub
Central connection point
dishing · tensioning · fitting · clamping · measuring · roundness · boxing · nave · linchpin · hooping
spokes
Rods connecting hub to rim
tenon · mortise · joinery · lathe · chisel · plane · timber · hardwood · grain · dowels
blacksmith
Iron-shaping craftsperson
hooping · farrier · ironwork · strake · bond · welding · quenching · heating
wagon
Wheeled hauling vehicle
buggy · dray · wheelbarrow · handcart · stagecoach · oxcart · chariot · sulky · buckboard · gig
apprenticeship
Learning trade through employment
- guildsCraftsmen's mutual aid societies
- journeymanQualified trade worker
- masterAuthority or controller
artisan · handicraft · wainwright · old-world · time-honored · preservation · conservation · legacy · demonstration · workshop
- old industriesblacksmithing, ironworks, sawmills, gristmills, tanneries
- traditional craftspottery, hand sewing, wood carving, weaving, blacksmithing
- folk craftsbasketry, basket weaving, quilting, quilts, embroidery
- wagonmakingaxle, spokes, hubs, rims, axles
- craftssewing, knitting, painting, glue, scissors
- handicraftssewing, knitting, pottery, weaving, embroidery
wheelwrightingblacksmithing
Forging iron by hand
farriery · carpentry · leatherworking · masonry · coopering
wheelwrightingmass production
Large-scale standardized fabrication
3D printing · industrial production · industrial manufacturing
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