Wheel building is NOT a dark art as some would have you believe. I've built up about 6 or 7 wheels now. Most of them are not dished as they are either fronts or fixed rear wheels. I have built some dished rear wheels though and as long as you get the spoke lengths correct and remember to use the right length spokes on the appropriate side its no more difficult than a front.
Anyway, I was replacing the front wheel on the touring bike as the rim was as concave as Mr Magoo's glasses and the hub was never that clever anyhow. Used a Deore XT hub and a Mavic A119 rim. The rim is fairly cheap and cheerful but perfectly sound AND double eyeletted. They are more or less disposable items anyway.
It took me 15 minutes to lace it all up, 10 minutes to get the spokes to tension and do an initial stress relieve and then only 5 minutes to true it, stress relieve it again and do a final true. All true to within less than 0.5 mm and all in only half an hour. Not bad!!
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