The other day, when I re-laced the rear wheel with full CX-RAY 6-cross lacing (in the image above) into a semi-competition 4-cross lacing, I wrote something like
"I won't lace wheels this way anymore,"
but right after that,


I received a comment while I was building a wheel with full CX-RAY 6-cross lacing that said,
"Just the other day, Nomura-san said he wouldn't be doing full CX-RAY 6-cross lacing anymore,
so why did you so readily change your position this time?"
It was an off-base comment that wasn't even a proper gotcha.
I think it's unnecessary to explain to most people, but
"not lacing equal-diameter, equal-spoke-count wheels" refers only to rear wheels with large hub shells and multi-speed cassettes.
Do I really need to spell it out this much?

In the case of a disc brake front wheel with a small hub shell,
I do sometimes lace with full CX-RAY,
but if it's 24 holes or more, I'll use 4-cross lacing instead.

Furthermore, in the case of a single-threaded piston hub rear wheel with a small hub shell,
I do sometimes lace with equal-diameter, equal-spoke-count patterns.
By the way, the Suzue hub in the image above
has double-threaded cups, so there's no hub shell flange offset.

Just to be clear,
for example, in the case of a 32-hole rim brake front wheel,
it's obviously possible to do full CX-RAY 6-cross lacing.