Andy - very true with regard to the skill set.
I was just looking at the advice of Anklework. I have a friend who welds and brazes but before I asked for his help I wanted to know if I could recover the old blade and have him re-braze or if once I stripped off the paint and removed the old blade I'd have to search for a new and longer blade so I could insert the new blade deeper into the fork crown than the old one had gone. If it was the former, I'd try that but it seems to lean towards the second answer which sounds like way more work than I would ever want and more expense than I could justify.
I am going to build the bike up for now. My plan was for a cruise around the neighborhood, shiny orange bike, not one to bike 100's of miles on. I will measure ever surface and then watch for a donor fork. When I find my donor forks I will get them powder coated to (hopefully) match the frame and that will be that and maybe then I will try the 100 miles.