Originally Posted by
seeker333
You guys over-think this. Surly sells their Disc Trucker fork in black, for 26 or 700 wheel, for as little as $90 shipped - less than you can make them. Buy one, ride it - it works, looks good too. Crown rack boss is a neat feature.
Let Tange do the hard stuff (maxway makes the frames, fork steerer is branded tange).
http://classic.aebike.com/product-li...5-m27576-qc30/
Plenty of reasons to try something different, there are good reasons we build frames instead of just getting a LHT.
The bend in those LHT forks is all concentrated in the middle of the leg, looks more like a (human) leg with a bent knee than a fork nicely raked along lower 1/3 of the leg.
Dropouts are verticle instead of forward facing as they should be for disk.
Builder might want different A-C, rake, width measurements or just astheticaly might want a differet crown style that fits rest of the bike together.