Originally Posted by eddy m

The key words there being "if they've mastered the basiss..."


That doesn't work if the spokes are twisted past yield. The reason I got back into wheelbuiding was that I got a really bad wheel from a local builder, and I have always thought that the problem was that several spokes were twisted past the yield point. That guy had built a lot of wheels, but he didn't understand what little margin of error there is when tensioning a 10 speed wheel. He hadn't "mastered the basics..."