As always I'm fascinated by the amount of knowledge that folks here have. I have a UHF converter on order now and I should also be obtaining a 3D printer at some point in the future...
I do intend to take a crack at fabricating a UHF strip for my tuner (because why not? worst case it doesn't work, best case it does and may prove useful for folks wanting to do the same) and I'll be sure to make a thread here because I'm sure others will be interested in that too.