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The clue is in the "as far as I can tell"... How far can you actually tell? That normally happens when you build without a tension meter... not only you want the tension even, but you also want it high enough and that's not something pinging spokes with your fingers will tell you. Don't be old school and get a tension gauge, the Park one is very reasonably priced
And don't forget to de-stress the wheel while you build

Skully +1 destressing the wheel properly, several times as you bring the tension up.

Hold the rim at 9 and 3 o'clock and press the hub onto something solid. Shuffle your hands to the next set of spokes and repeat. Once your all the way round do the other side.

OK thanks for your feedback.

As it happens I'm just buying lots of lovely tools right now, including a tension gauge.

Last time I was tensioning & truing a wheel in the presence of a pretty experienced mechanic, he was all like 'what on earth are you doing that for?' when I did the old push wheel down onto OLN then turn and repeat. Reckoned it was foo. Something about overturning then backing off every time you add tension.