Just bought an STI Duty One, if you're thinking of a railed 1911 then you might want to take a hard look at one too. It has every thing I wanted: 70 series without any extra safety garbage, available bull or bushing (I got a bushing one), checkered front-strap, undercut trigger-guard, etc. Pretty much every other one out there had things I wasn't into or considered drawbacks/compromises. Plus, most importantly, it's built by a Texan in Texas, and not just any Texan, one who knows top-shelf 1911's, the same guys who build the $4K race guns build the $1K guns too.
They're an employee owned company where every sale/gun counts (unlike at Colt, Sig, or Springfield, etc.), and you literally can call and have a conversation with the 'smith that built your gun if you need to. Besides all that, if you can compare a $1K STI to a $3K custom sometime, the differences in fitting and function will be almost nothing (though, the pricier guns will likely have a better finish). STI has built their reputation and business on guns that get shot more than they get looked at, I like that. Yes, their blueing sucks, but who cares, you're paying for the human stuff like hand-fitting and craftsmanship, and that's just a good excuse to hard chrome it or ionbond it down the road once you've worn most of it off... Yeah, there are things that many 1911 purists don't quite get, their trigger shoes are polymer, it's so you can bring their triggers down to sub-3lbs without hammer-follow or sear/trigger bounce issues, it's on purpose, not to be cheap, you find STI triggers on $6K+ race guns at matches all the time.
I don't know, hate to sound like such a fanboy, just consider that they're an affordable option out there beyond just following the herd with a Colt, Sig, Springfield, or Kimber, etc who make most of there $$$ selling pistols to people who might not put more than a couple hundred rounds down range per year...
Almost forgot, NO ONE has better customer service than STI, period.