Originally Posted by
urbanknight
Yeah, but I'm not sure how close the pitches should be. As a musician, a variant of 10 cents seems way off, but in wheel building, it's pretty darn close. Still, evenness means nothing if the tension is way too low or way too tight.
Agreed. Again, it's more of a side note than a solution, here.
Originally Posted by
Psimet2001
Oh geez....where to start....
Tonal tensioning - meh. If you have high qualilty spokes that are all cut correctly and are from the same batch so the diameters and butting only has small variances then yes...you can get close.
I have always (meaning in the 8-10 wheels I've built) been impressed with how even I get the spokes by tone. As in, I pluck them while I'm building, and at the end, I'm surprised how close they are using a tensionometer.
Maybe it's luck. Maybe I'm awesome. Or quite possibly, maybe my quality control isn't so hot.
Obviously, you (Psimet) have waaaaay more experience, so this isn't supposed to be the "Cat 5'er giving the pro advice on weight lifting." Just a curiousity.