>>1605072If you've never done a wheel before I suggest taking a built rear wheel apart and putting it back together for practice. That will let you see what's involved, build some technique and see if you need to rethink your approach or get additional tools. I screwed up and had to fix the dish and truing on a few wheels before I did my first built.
Lacing (without scratching the rim while installing spokes), initial uniform slack removal so you are in the ball park for tensioning, initial tensioning, dishing, final tensioning and radial / lateral truing.
I really like using a dial indicator for truing instead of a something like a zip tie as a point of reference. The dial needle makes finding the high / low spots easy and fast.
With a truing stand, the first time I built a wheel I think it took 4 hours. The last few I built took a few hours. If you do the tightening / truing steps with the wheel installed in a bike frame I suspect that might slow things down.
