Well, I absolutely wanted to try my hand at making spoked wheels but I don't have the gear to do silver soldering so I started thinking. First of all I notice that on real spoked wheels (for example on my bicycle) the spokes are not soldered to the hub or rim. They slip through holes in the hub and are held up by threads on the rim end.

Anyway, what I came up with was a combination of the techniques recently learned from other modelers here and on rcascalebuider. A special thanks to Reg and Donnie. The only serious tool needed was a cheap drill press for precisely drilling the 20 holes per side on the hub. The hub is made of two washers, and some bits of tubing that I found at the local hardware store. The bits were epoxied together to simplify construction but it's really the tension of 40 spokes that makes it rock solid.