Thread: Highway Wheels and Spoked Wheels

Thanks for that Bret all info and techniques welcome. That is what I like about forums like this everyone is willing to pass on anything that might be useful in our hobby

Well done Bret, Great find.
It very good to see so many blokes sharing the knowledge, thank you.
Cheers, crowie

I wrote a basic hub and spoke template generator that may come in handy for setting out wooden wheel hubs and spokes. here - Printable Hub and Spoke Templates - Metric

You enter Hub Diameter, Hub Width, Spoke Diameter and number of spokes and it draws a full scale diagram you can print, cut and wrap around the hub to mark the spoke centres.

Is this sort of thing any benefit?
If there's anything else like this that would come in handy, please let me know.

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That is awesome Blocklayer much appreciated. What other cool things do you have?

Bret

Hi Bret & All
This is the site where I got my ideas from Wooden Wheels Wooden Wheels
Its very similar to the site that has just been put up (with the exception of using the profile cutter and cutting the center out of the formed wheel ) then turning down the piece that was cut out to form the hub. I found with eight spokes it was easy to do by eye with a drill on the lathe chuck
I first got the idea from the toys and joys spoke wheels when one of the wheels centers fell out it was at this stage the penny dropped.

I have made similar truck wheels but not with the center hub I think that's a great idea and will try it at some point in the future. I am wondering Bret are you going to make the spoke jig from my post of a couple of days ago I would like to see some pictures of it on completion if you don’t mind colbra"]

Originally Posted by Diggerdelaney

Thanks for that Bret all info and techniques welcome. That is what I like about forums like this everyone is willing to pass on anything that might be useful in our hobby

I second that