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Cycgleek !!
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I've used the YST threadless ones before, I think Edinburgh Cycle still sell these. I have seen them sold under a couple of trade names but they are the same. Fairly cheap £15 quidish. You need two shimano type bottom bracket tools to nip them up and it uses a sort of crumple washer on one side rather than the chamfering tool. I have heard others bitch about these but I have been using one on a damaged frame for over a year. Two winters and a tour with no creaks.
This was fitted to a 531 o/s Raliegh MTB frame. -
Nice pattern. I'm thinking you are way better than me but this may help. I recently laced a pair of three leading three trailing but with an extra weave near the hub. The only way I could get the second side spokes into the nipples was to push the rim down over the hub, and then use a long, 16mm, set of nipples. Once the spokes were all pulled in and the wheel settling down, I then one by one replaced the 16mm nipples for the normal 12mm ones. It was quite a struggle but the wheels look pretty cool once done. Good Luck.
Sorry, know this is an old thread but heres what the look of these type of wheels is on different hubs. Front is a small Shimano MTB hub and rear is a large flange on-one. Both are laced three leading three trailing with plain gauge spokes and Rigida Chrina rims.
The lacing pattern is as Roland Cooks excelent website
http://www.terminalvelocity.demon.co.uk/WheelBuild/
If you are a fairly new wheel builder (like me) it took a couple of trues to get them to stay true as the spokes do have to settle down a bit. Now they are settled they fly. No problems with brake rubbing and the spoke tension has stayed good.