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Hi Gang:
There must be a time when the grain in a gunstock is just too fancy to be attractive. Like many other things in life one must know when to stop adding frills to an item. This could be a car, a house, a woman or engraving on a gun. There is a fine line between just enough and too much in any art form. I wood on E Bay that is just too well figured to hold my attention. I did find the gun that HackCW showed us was very well figured without being over the top. I have seen this happen at the local trap club with restocked guns.
Do you people have any comments on when a stock has too much grain figure to be attractive? How about a few pictures of gaudy wood grain if you can come up with an example.
TIA,
Franchi
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I can't have too much health.
My wife can't be too sweet.
My birddogs can't be too good.
My shooting can't be too good.
Beautfiul wood on my shotgun can't be too good, unless it is too weak to serve it's purpose.
My opinion.
Best,
Mike
I am glad to be here.
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It's all relative. What one calls gaudy one will say it's exhibition. Who's prettier a blond or a redhead?
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As always it's just personal preference but to me while I have seen several examples of engraving that is too gaudy IMHO, I have yet to see a stock on a gun that would strike me the same way.
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Franchi; I think when you say the words ART FORM that the only boundries is our own personal taste. There are many forms or artwork I find distasteful, wood on a gun is not one of them. Oh we all see some spectacular wood on those lowly field grades but if I had only one gun and wanted the best wood I could get on it I would be one of those guys. I wish I could post a picture of wood that was too nice for a gun but I can't. It would be hard for a guy to spend the money on wood and a restock to end up saying [What was I thinking]? All this is said in good humor Tom
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Maybe what you're really saying is that it appears too gaudy to you if it is obviously in a much higher class than the gun itself? Or do you think a really finely made and engraved gun can still have wood over the top?
Share any pictures that you might have where you think this might apply.
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It's like a girl too pretty.
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You can hardly tell there is checkering. That is beautiful.
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That's too much for me, Chuck. Now, if the wood were a little darker and there wasn't so much contrast between the two colors, it might be OK. For me, it also has to do with the way the grian runs. If it all runs the same way like a Zebra all throughout the intire gun, I might have a little bit of a problem with that, too. I would rather see a dark stock with very little grian, than one that is blond colored that has the grain sticking out like a sore thumb. The buttstock isn't too bad, but the forearm is a little too much.
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Too much!
I think wood can be too gaudy. To my eye, this is the case with most of the wood you're seeing on nicer guns.
I think part of the problem is the absence of true French walnut. That Turkish stuff is just too cakey. It doesn't look right and I dislike its yellowish hue.
I think a gun's beauty is a sum of its parts. When any one part grabs all the attention - from the engraving on the action to the wood - it's too much.
Elegance is what I appreciate. A lot of what I see today is the gun equivalent of a Rolex Presidential - not me at all.
OWD
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