Barry you are lucky Yost is leaving my area and moving, At this point they are no longer making mods, only thier own pistols and almost a year backlogged.
He is still in Tempe, but the shop is sorta reorganizing and changing names. Only Lew Bonitz is leaving (actually he has already left, I guess, to some land he owned in another state).
Ted Yost is still there, along with Jason Burton and Steve Bailey, who have been with Yost-Bonitz for a while.
Yes, they have stopped (or will soon) the 1* mods and said they will be concentrating on full customs.
That's too bad.
I thought the 1* series filled a gap that existed between factory guns and full customs. Turnaround time was a few months, which is really quick for what you got.
It put a custom gun in the hands of a lot of us who probably never would have got one.
Oh, the new name is Heirloom Precision.
http://www.heirloomprecision.com/
I imagine the wait is pretty long now. I sent them a HiPower for their SRT package within a few weeks of winning that Operator (No, rather than satisfy my urge for a custom pistol, the quality of work I saw in the Operator only pushed me over the edge and made me get my "dream gun" made). It took a few days short of a year for that one. The backlog has only grown since then.
I still think it's worth the wait, though.
I'd send a dozen more guns to them if I had the $$$.