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Yet, young bike freaks and mechanics seem to like this kind of spoking pattern. My advice: Leave them at it and the them continue to show their enjoyment and enthusiasm in this way. It's better to see them rolling spokes than rolling joints.

that´s exactly what I think about it. when getting into wheel building, you always look for new challenges. so why not try complicated looking patterns. for normal city use (I am not talking about racing) the stability of a front wheel is not the most important factor!

for the first snowflake pattern I took the length for a normal 3 times crossing and added 10mm. it worked out very fine! spoke diameter is 2mm... fot 1,8mm spokes I would take 8mm instead.

congratulation to sam. the 3 leading, 3 trailing, 3 cross, snowflake looks fantastic. till now I have only done two versions of the snowflake http://a.imageshack.us/img21/645/p1020538i.jpg and http://a.imageshack.us/img686/5174/p1020527u.jpg
I am very interested to try sam´s version!