Originally Posted by cyccommute
The first one would probably be more stable. You don't need a dishing tool with any truing stand. All you need to do is to turn the wheel around to check for dish. That said, I'd rather use a dishing tool anyway.
Perhaps I'm a little bit confused over what dishing is versus truing... I was always under the assumption (remember, I'm quite new yet) that truing was getting the rim physically straight, while dishing is making sure that the rim itself is in line with the center "joint" if you will. As I said, I ended up getting the rim completely straight however it was shifted over one side a little too far, so that's where I'm at now.
Will these truing stands tell me where in the rim that it needs shifted to the right/left AND tell me if the rim itself is centered from the dish or as I mentioned before, "joint?"