"OR, it can also be proposed that the sight is not moving at all, is fixed, and the slide is doing the movement, relative to the barrel and the sight."
That sounds more like what I was trying to say.
1rel·a·tive : a thing having a relation to or
connection with or necessary dependence on another thing.
Being that the sight is connected to the barrel and only moves with the barrel - not with the slide.
:banghead: HAHA. We could probably discuss this alone for hours. Good thing we don't talk on the phone. It can't be cheap calling Canada.
The only "article" I've seen on the conversion has been the one I posted.
If Mr. Lam is involved I believe that the grip conversion can be done well.
If I could find a steel SVI grip used/cheap I'd get one and have him hook it up. But I wouldn't touch it myself...unless I had enough money to get another after f-in up the first one

I'd have to guess you'd be looking at around $500 to do this though.