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JWestland
Two observations if you are just starting...
1 - Distress often by grabbing spokes. Don't leave it to the very last, its going to be hard & may have a big effect on true/roundness when you distress.
2 - If only certain spokes are winding up (you can see if its an aero spoke, round spokes you'll find it hard to turn, pings&creaks though tensionmeter only way to be sure) undo them a lot and work other areas first.
Yes wheelbuilding 101... :)
Just built Archetypes...truer finished than mavic opensport (which always have a protrusion near joint), roundness good but cheap mavic are round too.
Beautiful finish too, anoding is perfrct and hard spokes won't scratch it, just is it worth the £ over dtswiss r460 / a wide kinlin or alexrims I don't know :)