possible spoke nipples tip,

[Don R]

 I bought a 17" goldwing rim on a 4 hole cb750 hub on Ebay. Anyway, the spoke nipples are yellow colored and have the round end just like the sandcast spoke nipples. I can't say for sure if the spokes are GL1000 or late cb750 but they are a close match to sandcast nipples.
 Might help someone. I did see sandcast style spoke kits somewhere so it might be just that easy to get them correct looking. CB750.com or Z1 I'm not sure.
 

[Sam]

The yellow color on the spokes can be achieved correctly with a yellow chromate on top of the normal clear zinc.

I used this kit from Caswell and got these results:



Very happy with the results!

[Riccardo]

Tropical yellow surely.

[Don R]

 Update, that wheel was a cb750A front wheel and the spoke nipples had the round area at the top above the flats. Since photo bucket acted up I'm lousy at pictures.