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I’ve always been a both sides at the same time builder. I think building both sides simultaneously means you build asymmetrically and if you build one side at a time you build symmetrically…or vice versa? I’m sure I read in a wheel building book that you basically learn one way and tend to stick to it and that the differences in strength are so small it doesn’t really matter. That sounds like a good way to start an argument though!
Anyway, got my wheel done. Small hiccup at the start when I counted the wrong way around the hub flange to set the key spoke and I didn’t notice until it came to twisting the hub and the 2x spokes were reaching further than the 3x ones and the hub logo was way out! Easily rectified though and all worked out in the end.
I was taking the hub out of one rim and building into another and the two rims actually had the same erd so could have just done a straight swap but by the time I realised that I was invested in doing this two different crossings build!
Cheers for the advice all.