Chuck, your gun is lovely. While it is not exactly my favorite "look" it is definitely not over the top to me. I prefer a bit darker with marble cake grain or crotch grain feathering...but that is just me. I truly don't think I can say that I have ever seen wood that is TOO MUCH, but I definitely have seen engraving that is too much, for me that is. Lovely wood is wonderful and when on a good double gun it is even more so. Of course, that is just MY opinion. To each their own.

Stever