Originally Posted by
Classtime
If you have a LBS you really really trust with wheel building, sure, drop em off with your directions. You could back off all the spokes yourself and then you know for sure they brought them to proper even tension from zero which I think is important. Too many employees do work that is "good enough".
Yes, and I personally would take it one step further. Remove the rims from the spokes and check them for roundness and flatness. There are various ways to "true" wonky rims prior to lacing them. If they are not round or flat, they will never have uniform spoke tensions.