I wrote this up last year and formatted it as one post, but Hans tells me I would have to third-party host the pics to group them, and I have not done it - and it's been a year - so I am going to put it here as a series of separate posts. The tool shown here is pretty easy to build, and has been useful not only for building wheels, but also in pinstriping them on one occasion. The wheel-table adds nothing to one's ability to build a wheel - but it does take some time off for sure. The project shown here is not the absolute ideal for the table - which is a spoke change - but it was still a time-saver on the rim-change shown below.
This is the rear wheel off a GT550 Suzuki triple I had when I was fifteen; the last few years I have been running this on the back of my GN400 single. Since Gary Ball gave me a GT750 Water Buffalo front drum brake which I laced into a Yamha TX750 rear rim (from Roy's originally: perfect fit, as the rear drum on the Yamaha was almost identical in size to the Suzuki front drum) with XS650 spokes, I needed to match the deep-shouldered rear rim from the TX750 (which was now on the front of my GN) with a matching rim laced to the GT550 rear hub. Since I had an extra 18" Yamaha 650 rear rim (also from Roy's at some point), that was the easy source for a deep shouldered rim.
Here is the wheel as I was using it, and the rim I want to lace in...
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