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Hope Pro 2 Evo front 185g £55
Hope Pro 2 Evo Trials rear 295g £139
Stans Iron Cross 780g £126
Some spokes & nipples 300-350g £20 (ACI or DT Comp) to £130 (CX-Rays)
Total 1560-1610g + skewers, about £340-£450. Add another £200[£180] to drop 100g using DT240[American Classic] hubs, so that's low on the weight weenie priority list at £2/g. For 60g less, if you want to sacrifice the strength benefit of a proper SS hub, Novatec's best XC hubs are $129 which will be about £100 landed, so 1550g wheels for ~£250
The Hope version with the cheaper spokes adds £100 to Emyr's build sheet (+120 for the wheels, -20 for using a splined sprocket rather than a freewheel) and drops 120g off the wheels and another 150g as the difference between a splined sprocket and a freewheel. You also get a great set of wheels which will be a joy to keep but easy to sell, lower running costs as you'll be wearing out cheap sprockets and more flexible gearing. On the minus side, the only way to run fixed with these wheels is to take off the back brake and use a bolt on sprocket. If your budget is £800 going on £1k, I'd go for the Hope option, should get you to a genuine 9.5kg without blowing through the £1000 barrier or running the wrong tyres just to get the weight down.