Huh…It didn’t scrape? Oh. Because they don’t make them anymore. Well, crud. It was the Vuelta 37MM aluminum rim laced with bladed spokes. They’re super rugged an ok aero but a little heavy & not very wide internal width…you used to be able to pick them up for >$200 tho. & you could cobble them together tubeless w/o much trouble.
Ummm…I don’t have a go to budget gravel wheelset. I’d have to look around & do some research. It would be tough to rec anything without riding it around on gravel for several hundred miles. The above BOM I’ve ridden across thousands of miles of gravel so I’m pretty confident in it.