Another great thing about building your own wheels is that you can build with used parts. I have developed quite a stash of used spokes and nipples and rims, less so with hubs - I usually have a purpose with the hubs, which is what results in the leftover rims, etc. I had a set of Peter White wheels that I have had for 9 years, still perfect, but the 48 spoke SON dyno front hub was perfect for my Riv cargo Bike and the Phil 48 spoke rear hub was perfect for the Gus Boots Wilsen, so they got disassembled and build onto wheels with much, much wider rims. My rims and tires are definitely getting wider as I get older. The current wheel building challenge is some 28" (635) roadster rims (28H front, 40H rear) on a Flying Pigeon with some drum brake hubs instead of the rod brakes, I had a local wheel builder build them years ago, but they have never been correct (even the builder said so) - will not true up well. The brake side is a huge flange and the non-brake side is tiny. It appears that the correct way to build these is to mix cross patterns on different sides of the hubs instead of 3X on both sides. Note that newer Sturmey Archer drum brake hubs (Pashley Guv'nor) have large flanges on the non-brake side to avoid this dilemma.
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