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by final frontier I take it you want to start building wheels? And you havent done any before?
What you may be glad to hear in that case is that "wheel truing stands" which are sold for anything up to £150 offer no benefits over building a wheel with the use of your frame & fork.
Proper shop quality wheel jigs offer a lot more useful precision but are not something you really need or can afford.
Just make sure to buy the correct size spokes, begin by tightening all of them till the thread is concealed.
Then (with a good condition rim) you wheel will mostly likely be true & correctly dished.
Then go around the wheel doing quarter turns on each spoke till you get good tension.
Then true it using your brakes, or bits of tap/cable tie's, and run you finger at the edge fo the rim while spinning to make sure your hube has not gone off-centre.
I took my first wheel to the shop to check dishing, and it was exactly correct.