Okay, now I'm digging around the Nills site.
Everyone who bothers to read this thread should download the catalog and geek out on it. Cool and interesting stuff inside.
I noted they can get permission from the EU to make grips out of ivory, but exporting them to the US is not possible.
Their catalog states:
The same page shows an old P210-like pistol with Nills' personal grips, apparently, which seem to be the prototype for the P210 American pistol. Interesting.Heckler & Koch P30
One main criteria for the development of the successful Heckler & Koch P30 was to invent
an ergonomic grip to fit many shooters hands. Due to his knowledge Wilfried Nill was
significantly involved to this project giving the P30 an optimal ergonomic grip concept.
The more of his designs I look at, the more obvious is the connection to H&K's "Spiderman" grip concept. I'm more of a USP guy. Just to blue sky a little bit, I wonder whether the differences in competitive shooting disciplines popular in Europe vs. the US, and the way that people like GJM train with their pistols, is a significant contributor to the variations in form that we see. "Mission drives the gear train."
I'm also realizing that the Hogue NFG grip for the GP100 has a lot of Nills influence, and remembering that removing the Nills-like hump from the backstrap of my GP100's rubber grip was the single biggest improvement I made to it. Night and day with a very small change that most people wouldn't even immediately visually notice.
More and more, I'm headed toward starting to make my own from scratch.