If I fully drop a heel at 6 o'clock with 175mm cranks I can drag the dirt, but I have long achilles - it's low, but manageable. The 490mm A-C is roughly 60mm from bottom out of a proper fork, so eventual HA depends on the chosen travel. Handcrafted in small batches, the Canfield Bikes Nimble 9 is a steel all-mountain hardtail built to get rowdy and designed to accommodate 29-inch, 29-plus or 27.5-plus wheels with up to 2.8-inch tires. I've ridden easy trails with proper tyres and my son riding shotgun, and felt good. The stays didn't clear a proper 29" tyre, so it's mullet. I'll use it like that for gravel touring. It made for the longest slackest 'entouro' bike in town, and rides pretty nicely in that imaginary category. I'm building up the bike slowly - I started with the rigid fork and skinny 29" wheels with touring tyres. I don't have a comparison with a suspension fork yet, sorry.
Ever since I found out about them I've wanted to try building something a bit crazy, thos might be it! I was going to go with Marino for the custom job. Does that setup maintain your hta and bb height? I would think the hta might steepen and the bb drop? How do the angles hold up? More importantly, how does it ride? Any pictures? That's almost exactly what I am thinking.
Maybe more shopping around could save you the custom hassle? (totally understand if that's part of the appeal). The bike you're describing sounds a bit like mine. It's heavy, but you wanted to go slower, right? My hardtail is currently rigid - the Surly Karate Monkey fork is 490mm A-C, boost, at least 15mm/side clearance around a DHF 29x2.5 on a 30mm rim, and has all the bosses.
As I am using the stylus 27.5 geo, I took the ac height off a 27.5 lyric at 170mm travel, subtract 20mm for the bigger 29 wheel height and another 40mm off for 25% sag giving an ac height of about 500mm. I ride my primer with a 170mm fork and with a 10mm spacer under the stem and about 25% sag, the position is perfect. I figure I will use the sagged geo off my primer to decide on the fork length.
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