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I built my own from a Sarco kit. I wouldn't trade the experience for anything -- I learned a tremendous amount that I would never have picked up from disassembling and reassembling a completed firearm. I have since upgraded a few parts to suit my sense of aesthetics (no functional reason), but I estimate that as I originally built it I probably had invested about $100 more than if I had just bought a complete Rock Island pistol. And the complete pistol would have had a warranty.
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I did the same thing. It was a huge PITA, but when everything finally worked (don't even ask how much time I spent on it) I applied the same skills to tweak some of my less expensive 1911s.
It's still one of my favorite guns, because I built it. Still, it was a LOT harder than building an AR.