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Sapim race are you other option for spokes. Given you are in the E.U they should not be too hard to find and may be cheaper.
Lacing takes 15 minutes. You can't just true a wheel that has been laced. It needs tensioneing, the tesnions evened out, dish correctting maybe, stress releiving then final truing. If all you are going to do is lacing save ypur self the bother and just ask the shop to the whole job you will save yourself 1/4 of the labour cost. Also if you mess up the lacing and the shop has to relace your bill goes up. Wheel building is the whole process if you are going to do do all of it, you be surprised what you can achieve with minimal tools and patience.