First Wheel Building Atempt

So Angie is at grandmas and Lynn is our Christmas shopping and Nick is taking a nap. What to do? Why not try to build my first wheel. I've had the parts for a while. The rim was from the FSR before I broke a few spokes and the hub at the shed. So for a few bucks its worth trying to build a backup wheel (Mavic 223 Rim, DT Swiss Comp Spokes and XT Disc hub).

Here are the parts.


Now I got the leading spokes in.


Had to redo the freewheel trailing spokes because I mislaced it, but its now all done and ready to be trued and dished.


I'll have to finish up later, Nick should be up any minute...