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If it aint' Baroque, don't nix it.
jack Ouch! Glenn
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Doug-
Do you own that shotgun? If you have more pics of it, could you post them? What I can see is beautiful!!!
Lowell hit the nail on the head. That is what I tried to say in my first post-your eye needs constant movement and should not home in on any one thing. Any work of "art" must be balanced to be good. From an artistic point of view, everything has the potential to be "over the top." Wood, engraving, metal work, metal finish, checkering, whatever, must be in harmony with all of the other components or the impact of the piece as a whole greatly suffers.
Good art will evoke a gutteral emotion. If the piece is not balanced (gun, photograph, painting, sculpture, archetecture, what have you) the total emotional impact will be lower than the sum of the parts. The more out of balance on portion of the whole is, the lower the total artistic value compared to the sum of the parts.
Some people like to say that art critics are blowing hot air and can only speak for themselves. That is true to an extenet, but soemone truly trained in art understands the science and psychology behind good works, and what bad works of art are lacking. It is actually prretty universal, anywhere around the world.
BUT...there is a wild card here. Some people are just so lacking in taste that no amount of art training could ever help them. Some one who, for instance, would desire a skeleton butt plate made from Damascus steel. A person like that is a lost cause. Hmmmmm, wonder if anyone on this board fits that dscription?I better be nice because I just asked him for a favor a couple of paragraphs up this post. (this is where I would add the little winking smiley face if I were more computer literate!)
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Hey Marc, you've been spending way to much time talking to Glenn Fewless. I just think that a damascus steel skeleton butt plate would be way cool. After all I'm going to make the grip cap from the same damascus and we do want it to match don't we?  Here's a couple of more Daly photos for you to see. BTW, eightbore always likes it when I post pictures of the Daly - right Murph???? Gotta go - my wife's graduating from college this afternoon and she requested my presence.  
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Rabbit, a big slabsided hunk of metal is not what I had in mind.
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WOW! That is a very, very nice gun. Did you stock it? Please tell your wife I said "congratulations!"
BTW-i was going to add to my last post but forgot to say:
I am a FIRM believer in the idea that if it is your money, do what makes you happy. After all, that is what custom gun is about-getting what you think should be in a gun.
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Btw Doug, your gun is a handsome piece.
Owd Lowell wouldn't sit in judgement of any gun - just it's place of origin - fey, friend or foul?
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I think that a shotgun having too much engraving, or wood that is too beautiful, is about like a married guy complaining that his wife wants sex too often!
UNLIKELY! ....or perhaps IMPOSSIBLE!
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Okay okay enough. I can't stand it anymore ! Durn it Doug, you've hooked me. Please go on and send me those close-ups of the rest of the action so I can start a new project. As I do have a really nice sans butt stock G gd. 20 ga Damascus Parker, I'll scallop the frame and lay out a pattern somewhat similar to your Daly. Guess I might just as well get another piece of wood to match the engraving while I'm at it too. Oh yeah, maybe I better get one of those damascus butt plates to (how about it Glenn ?) ------- See what you've started Doug. Ken
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In my house, the mini Daly was known as "The project that will never be done". I have never been so glad to see a gun go away. However, conversely, I have never been so eager for a gun to "return to the roost". Murphy
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I've never seen a piece of wood that was "over the top".....never.
I've seen beautiful stocks that were debased with oak leaf carvings, gold wire and mother of pearl inlays, endless ribbons and fleurs through checkering that hid the figure....but I've never seen wood too beautiful for any application. My taste runs to the most bodaciously figured wood imaginable on a funeral gun, and I don't find it objectionable on a Sterlingworth, which is nothing more than an FE that didn't make it to the engraver's bench.
If I didn't own guns my garden tools would sport fancy walnut handles. I have to agree with Mike. In fact, I love wood so much that I recently bought a whole bunch. (I had a little bit of it back at the Southern.) And, with some of the pieces that don't work for guns, I probably will turn some handles for my tools. I can appreciate a beautiful burl (or feather or flame or fiddleback etc.) in a mantle clock or the back of a chair or a nice little box. Wood is nice stuff and I would never turn away from a gun and turn up my nose because the wood was "too beautiful" for the gun. But, that's just me. Jake
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