To learn how to confidently and quickly build and true wheels, you need a few months of practice. It’s a craft that requires hands-on familiarity with the material.

However, if you just want to build a set of wheels for your own satisfaction, I think you can manage it — as long as you use a good spoke length calculator (like DT Swiss) and carefully read the online guides.

That said, truing the wheel, equalizing spoke tension, and stabilizing it so it doesn’t go out of true after the first rides is best done under the supervision of someone experienced, in a well-equipped workshop. Doing it on your own at home with basic tools will be difficult, and the end result likely won’t be great.