Originally Posted by
rafiki530
…did you have to tension the spokes more than a traditional wheel lacing.
I don't think so; I simply tensioned them until they rung around A440 when plucked. The spokes are pretty twisty-turny because I decided to cross all of the spokes very near to where they exit the hub.
Conventional wisdom says to lay new spokes over all spokes that you cross on the way to the rim, except for the last one which you duck under. On a 3 cross, this means going over-over-under. On a 2 cross, over-under. Thing is, when you're doing 2-leading 2-trailing wheel, that rule doesn't apply for half of the spokes. Half of the spokes go over-under like you would expect, and half of them go over-NOTHING. Not being confident with having half the spokes interleaved, and half non-interleaved, I simply interleaved them all.
I'll leave the study of
this photograph as an exercise for the reader.