Why hand building is better.
the wheel is made round and true before tensioning
stress relieving between each round of tightening allows for more even spoke tensions
higher spoke tensions possible through hand building, make livelier more durable wheels
After building several hundred wheels, one begins to suspect that the nature of tension spoked wheels is very subtle.
After a thousand wheels one may reach a level of understanding.
This understanding allows the craftsman to begin building wheels that sing.
Can a machine do this?
