Originally Posted by
Slaninar
Then I stand corrected.
Is there compromising of spoke's steel "stainlessness" and/or material hardness?
Cutting spokes makes sense for exotic sizes/types, that can't be sourced, or are very expensive. For the price of a decent quality regular spoke, I doubt it would be cost effective to pay someone to cut the old ones. Correct me if I'm wrong there as well.
As you can see, there are people like Dan Burkhart above who charge reasonable prices, unfortunately I can't find them locally. If you can find new spokes for 10¢, more power to you. I personally don't see the point in spending $100 on new spokes if I already have 72 unused, too-long DTs available. That's "cost effective" to me. As for how quick and easy it is, watch somebody do in less than 2 minutes what some shops would charge up to $60 for.