I think something like the Pineapple One [1] is just as trust worthy while being less obscurantist. I mean a 36-bit word is truly being different for retro's sake. There hasn't been a 36-bit word machine released since the PDP-10 in 1966 . If it strikes your fancy, please, go ahead, but I'd personally rather spend my time on a TTL-logic version of an architecture that has some mainstream support.

[1] https://hackaday.io/project/178826-pineapple-one