Sometimes you can be at home doing something new, do it 100% right, and still don't know if that was really so. It doesn't hurt to chat about it with others that may have more experience.

I have one of these and a box of longer spokes I don't hesitate to cut down to size as needed. The truth is that the tool will never form threads as good as factory threads so to somebody comparing them it may look like the tool is not working good enough. All I can say is that so far they have worked just fine.