On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 21:53:05 -0500, "Morris Dovey"
wrote:

Bob AZ wrote:

| Any idea what type of wood is used in the hub of a wood spoked wagon
| wheel? Can you tell by looking or feeling?

Bob...

A suggestion: See if your local library has, or can request, a copy of
the Fox Fire books. This was a series of paperback books put together
by hgh school kids (in Appalaachia?) who interviewed oldsters in an
effort to produce a compendium of how things used to be done. One of
the volumes has an excellent chapter on making wagon wheels - with
information from people who actually did that for a living.

Appalachia, sort of. The project was done in a school in Rabun Gap,
GA, as I recall. That's in the NE part of the state. I guess that's
the Appalachin chain, but I think it's also the southern end of the
Blue Ridge in that area. The Chattooga River runs through there, which
is where "Deliverance" was filmed.

The sad part of the Foxfire books story is that the teacher who led
the project was eventually charged with some variation of child
molesting, was discharged, and did some time.

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