It would be cheaper to buy the lovely wife a used 9mm of midsize frame

Quality porting will require holes properly placed in slide to match holes placed in barrel.

None of the holes in the barrel or slide can be done with dremel drill press hand drill etc.

If you attempt to do it yourself then you will likely be devaluing the weapon almost surely below any acceptable level

The cost to have it done proper will be comparable to cost of some new and some used weapons of manageable recoil level.

$0.02 and worth is debatable

Oh and EDM is something like Electrical Displacement of material(metal) close if I remember, otherwise known as plasma cutter. It's like a real life Raygun that melts metal, no Sheet!

Good luck with the decision, oh and buy a Hi-Point and try it first

thanks for the info

no thanks on the hi-point.

EDM stands for Electrical Discharge Machining . It is a far more precise form of electrical material removal, and does not use compressed air in a jet the way that a plasma cutter does. Totally different process.

The other people that you see that have done a porting job to their guns have access to a professional mill and training, or a friend that has training. This is not something that I would even CONSIDER trying with any of my guns, and I am generally up for trying almost any project myself.

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