I feel ridiculed and see that you may feel ridiculed. Let's have a party.

I never said I was going one way or the other. It would be a general tendency for some OP with a certain mindset to want to stick to that mindset. I am completely open to hear opinions, as well. If it sounds like I'm not gravitating to your solution or your cyber-friend's solution, then I would like to see you keep your emotions to yourself. I also had trouble visualizing the technical issues.

I'm building up a frame from scratch. I have some 31.8 bars around that I would like to use. I like threadless stems cause they are readily available. I like the durability of a Chris king. I need a 1" threadless headset anyways for other future builds, should I want to switch it out.

I figure since it's a used carbon fork I ought to get it replaced anyways, and I will. I wanted to try my presumptuous idea because I thought it would be a short term solution.

The cost of getting new bars, threaded stems, and headset is greater than or equal to getting a threadless stem, new fork, and headset. (might I be able to recover some cost from selling the fork that's 13 years old?). If it's more, I would find it to be worth it as I will never have to replace this headset again (and got for half price!)

Does anyone want to trade their 1" untapped fork for my cannondale carbon slice fork from 1998?