You haven't tried to balance it yet have you? The final weight is going to depend on that.
Please consider balancing it right where suggested by the plans or one of the online apps that considers the measurements including the horizontal tail. When you balance them nose heavy for safety and they're porkers, you're cutting your own throat. Nose heavy handles slower because it's reducing the ability of the tail to control the airplane. It's really not a good idea with a heavy plane. You're already going to have a wing struggling with a lot of weight. That reduces the AOA available before the wing stalls. That reduces the AOA the tail has to work with. Add in the extra weight the tail has to control from the nose heavy condition and the tail is risking stall too. You really don't want to reduce it's capability with excess nose weight that's really not making the plane easier to fly and certainly not safer to fly. Want it to feel safer? Dial in some exponential. But keep the recommended throws and the recommended balance point.