View Full Version : making a wheel - how?
Frank Fusco
08-13-2006, 1:14 PM
I'm wanting to make some scale (8" to 10" diameter) wheels similar to what is used on old style wagons. I know these are made in segments and fastened to spokes from a hub. Puzzlement involves knowing what angle to cut the segments and/or figuring out how to make the size one wants. Wouldn't a larger wheel have less of an angle? Is that clear as mud? :confused:
Richard Wolf
08-13-2006, 2:05 PM
No a larger wheel has the same angles. The angles depends on the number of segments. 4 segments at 90 degrees, 8 at 45 degress, 16 at 22 1/2. The size of the wheel is depended on the lenght of each segment.
Try laying it out full size on some paper first.
Also wheel making, as in wheelwright work can get pretty specialized, there are some good books still around.
Richard
Wes Bischel
08-13-2006, 2:42 PM
Frank,
Not sure how deep you want to get into it -
http://www.astragalpress.com/wheelwrighting.htm
A bit expensive if it's for one project.
FWIW,
Wes
Frank Fusco
08-13-2006, 6:02 PM
Frank,
Not sure how deep you want to get into it -
http://www.astragalpress.com/wheelwrighting.htm
A bit expensive if it's for one project.
FWIW,
Wes
Thanks, I saved in Favorites and will study. Richards response made obvious sense. So obvious I feel kinda stoopid now. Oh, well. Why should today be any different than most others? :o
Robert E Lee
08-14-2006, 5:01 AM
Frank, I have bought pattern books for wheels that are very good from Windy Hill Woods but now I find thier stuff here.
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Windyhill_Woods.htm
I was doing some checking and I fond their stuff at
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Windyhill_Woods.htm
Don’t know why.
Bob
Frank Fusco
08-14-2006, 9:12 AM
Frank, I have bought pattern books for wheels that are very good from
www.windyhillwoods.com (http://www.windyhillwoods.com)
Windy Hill Woods
P.O. Box 14169
Kansas City, Mo. 64152-1901
816-746-4695
Bob
I was doing some checking and I fond their stuff at
http://www.wildhorsebooks.com/Windyhill_Woods.htm
Don’t know why.
Thanks, but the Windy Hills link wouldn't open.
Robert E Lee
08-14-2006, 7:00 PM
Frank I fixed it. There wheel books have the patterns and jigs to make some very nice looking wheels.
Bob
Cliff Rohrabacher
08-14-2006, 7:33 PM
start with a square and knock off the corners. Keep it up till no corners obtain. Drill a hole in the middle.
Poof.
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