Here's my cobbled up work stand made from Unistrut and hardware scrounged on construction projects at the plant where I work and some square tube pulled from a dumpster. I don't remember purchasing anything to build it. Since these pics, I've added some rubber tubing to both rails on the "cradle" instead of using the blue shop towel.
Here's my homebuilt truing stand based on plans from Roger Musson's online wheelbuilding book.
Here's my homebuilt dishing gauge I threw together
