DRat - Bill Laughridge is a buddy of mine, we have dinner together when he is in Tulsa for the big gun show in April. He is a very fine gentleman, a superb gunsmith, and excellent work is turned out by his shop. I have my own gunsmith that works on my guns and he has used C&S parts in my BHP's and 1911's. He insists on ordering his parts from C&S whenever possible as he, Christian, and Bill have a good relationship. C&S is one of the few big name gunsmith companies my guy might be willing to go to work for because of the consistent quality of work turned out by their shop.
The reason I suggested that you use Rock River Arms is to save money. They are the SAME parts that Les uses just without the Les Baer logo. Mark and Chuck Larson, brothers, own Rock River Arms, worked for Armalite before going to work with Les, left over some business dealings, and started their own company. The frames and slides come from the same place and both use Kart barrels. Same guns only RRA is hundreds of dollars less. Your call, but that logo is not worth the extra money to me.
Keep in mind LB line of pistols are not 'custom' guns. They are one of the best, highest quality, mass produced pistols on the market, along with Rock River Arms and you could probably include Wilson. The only custom pistols Les built was in the 1980's when he was still living in Pa. before he went to work for Springfield Armory, those were custom pistols. He REALLY did some nice work. His tolerances were incredibly tight, in fact he had to loosen up a little bit as he had previously worked as a cyrogenic machinist building vanes for turbine engines and worked in tolerences as low as .0001 (that is one ten-thousandth of an inch). If you have C&S build you a pistol from a frame and slide, now THAT will be a custom pistol, with all of Bill's special parts of course.