Wood can be too gaudy, just like if you have too many gold teeth with inset diamonds it can start to be gaudy.

The worst wood I've ever seen was in Shooting Sportsman a couple years ago, some guy (hope he's not a member here) had some blanks that he had owned for years and finally had an expensive matched pair of Italian O/U's made up with. Flew to Italy to the factory, the whole bit. Very light wood with tons of curly figure. Just atrocious.

I've always figured if Chevy Chase in 'Vacation' had bought a pair of shotguns to match his custom station wagon, those woulda been the ones.