Was the 'reputation' garnered from re-milling the boxy, squared off slides to what they should have been to start with?
Well, he would certainly do that, though I've not seen many completed examples of his 1911s. The ones in his shop are in pieces.
I had him do a hunting rifle for me and a lot of his work lately has been for law enforcement and former military snipers. You look on the racks in his shop and you will see almost nothing but tactical long guns.
It's funny. Some of these agencies spend serious bucks for a rifle from a nationally known gunshop or 'smith, and it doesn't shoot for chidt. Or it did shoot well at first, and then it went to chidt. He remakes them the way they should have been made in the first place.