Originally Posted by 3dvvitch

That pardo website I linked to (which may or may not actually work very well) says the following:

"Meyer bought 1.27 mm (0.050 inch) wire, of a sort suitable for spokes. He formed threads on the outside of brass(?) tubing, which he slid on and then silver-brazed to the wire. He formed heads by... doing away with the head entirely, and replacing each pair of spokes (and heads!) with one long spoke, run rim-to-hub-to-rim.

Half of a Hi-E spoke (equivalent to a single conventional spoke) is 3.65 g for 311 mm equivalent, which would make a 260 mm equivalent about 3.05 g. In comparison, Sapim lists their Super Spoke as 3.61 g for 260 mm, or about 18% heavier than a Hi-E spoke."

But that description applies to a slightly different version (maybe the standard version) where the spoke thread section are a separate piece attached to the spoke wire (see below). I'll update once I get calipers on the spokes on my version of the wheel and weigh it. I'm curious now to see if my version is any lighter than normal.