Stop in for a cup of coffee

I haven't even bagged for last few years. Just get them mulched before they get too thick, and they all disappear!
I need to fashion a mulching plate for my discharge shoot. May be out of expanded metal? so the fine leaves can leave the deck. Deere has mulching decks for my mower. I wouldn't buy one but I wonder what the design differences are other than blades? I know they take a different belt. May be a extra blade?