Originally Posted by FBinNY

Just because something can be done, doesn't mean it makes sense. If you go to a shop to have these cut and threaded, especially for a small trim cut of 2mm or so, I expect that the labor charge will be fairly close to the price of new plain gauge spokes, and maybe 12 or more the price of buted spokes.

So given that the savings isn't all that much, dosn't make more sense to start fresh?

Of course the answer would be different if you owned a threading machine, or were a member of a co-op with one, so the only cost of cuting would be your time.