Varonha custom frame... And other ongoing stuff

Just to be clear, shorter fork so it’ll be the same length as carbon fork?

No, sorry I wasn't clear. Originally I drew the frame and forks vaguely based on a cyclocross geo (I realise there's loads of variations within that, advocates of high bb versus advocates of low bb, etc...). I wanted, at the time, to have two sets of forks, one steel, one carbon, and both had comparable measurements (with minor variations in rake). So for the A/C of the steel forks I used an average length from few cyclocross carbon forks (Ritchey WCS canti, wound up...). Because carbon forks are more"meaty" at the crown, the equivalent length steel forks looked a little gappy, and the front wheel clearance was bigger than the rear. It was what I wanted at the time (Winston thought it was a little bizarre but we went ahead like this).
It turns out I only used carbon forks for few month and in the end I don't really care. So I wanted to correct the slight oddity of the forks by swapping them with shorter ones. I don't remember now because I went thru the CAD exercise couple month ago, but by reducing the A/C length by 8/10mm, it only lowered the BB by something like 4/5 mm and HT / ST angle are affected by less than half a degree. Bear in mind I had originally opted for quite a high BB. So I really think that if I feel the difference I'm going to like it. New forks are slightly lower trail than previous.
All of the above isn't very scientific I realise... I like how the bike feels; I made sure the new stem height accounts for the slightly shorter forks so reach will be the same... So in theory I'm still going to love the way the bike feels. To be honest, I wouldn't have bothered with new forks if it wasn't for the stem project. The custom stem is exiting to me, I wanted to play more, hence the new colour scheme I want to do as well... Hadn't had a project in a while, that's mostly how I justify all this!