I tried to get him to build me a carb back in 2000 or so. He just never got it done, and I wouldn't pay up front.
Then in 2012 my buddy found him and wanted him to do up a pair of tunnel ram carbs. For what he wanted I could have Dale Cubic, Bob Book, Bo Laws or Taylor Lastor do them, for less money and you don't have to screw with the obsolete plates he uses. Modern metering plates have made the Weber plates pretty much nothing more than an extra PITA.