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I strongly suggest that you do find a disk worthy fork blade. Nova has offered some in the past and I believe Columbus (and others?) does now too.
I went through this very question a couple of years ago when I made my first disked bike. I decided to go with a straight blade to avoid the fabbing of a mount which will handle a curved blade in addition to the disk blade's likely being much tougher to bend. But I used an IS mount and wanted a tail running up the backside of the blade for stress distribution and blade bending resistance. I haven't looked into flat mounts and the various dimensional and fit considerations so my experience might not transfer completely. Andy
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