Why handbuilding is better

Wheel is made round and true before tensioning.

Stress relieving between each round of tightening allows for more even spoke tension.

Higher spoke tensions possible through handbuilding, make for 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 will sing.

Can a machine do this?