Originally Posted by
urbanknight
I'd actually counter that by saying if you can true and tension and old wheel, truing and tensioning a new wheel will seem easy.
Agree. If you have the skills to true, then go for it.
The only new skill to learn is lacing a wheel, and either you get it right or wrong (and its pretty easy to tell), theres no real skill or feel to lacing like truing a wheel requires.
When you go to start tensioning, work on out of round first. Once its round and has some tension, then put in the dish (for the rear) and then work on the lateral true. Last thing is final tension which is pretty easy. Once you have the wheel round, dished and lateral, then just turning each spoke by the same, small amount will bring the tension up. Once you have final tension, then stress and touch up the lateral true until you can stress the wheel very hard and the true stays put.