Never bought a full custom either, but have coon fingered a few a gun shows, very nice, I went with the cheaper DW Razorback because my 'Smith owed me about 180 bucks worth of labor on a deal, he put a beautiful custom front strap checkering job and a stainless magwell on my 10mm.
I wanted to order the correct height Novak style night sights to shoot to poa with the 200gr handload I'd eventually work up, so didn't need factory night sights either.