Originally Posted by
operator
What I didn't quote was how he says that < 24 spoke wheels cannot be handbuilt in another conversation. So he's saying it can be done and can't be done in different posts. Which is it?
Jobst is only human, and strongly opinionated at that. He doesn't approve of low spoke count wheels on general principles, so it's not surprising if he would unintentionally blur the line between what he considers shouldn't be done and what "can't" be done.
It's not "can't be done" as a physical impossibility, but rather "can't be done" as in difficult, uncomfortable, time consuming and without particular merit.
Use high quality stuff and some extra consideration and it should still be doable.
Originally Posted by
operator
Spoke unloading - does that only work for box section rims or deeper section ones like deep v's?
Spoke unloading as he describes it is done by putting a lateral load on the rim, and there's not that much difference in lateral rigidity between box section and deep V.
If he'd been doing spoke unloading by putting a radial load on the rim instead, then it would indeed be much harder to achieve that on a deep V rim.