I dunno, Mark. Is your refrigerator decorated? My SW, Parker and A & N are plain as pudding. Purity of line is elegant. Form follows function. I appreciate the art of engravers and craftmen. But it comes down to taste. Why embellish a beautiful shape? Golden lightning bolts and engraving doesn't put "soul" into a gun any more than a multi-million-dollar pile makes a home.
Actually King, yes, my refrigerator is decorated with odds and ends as are most refrigerators I would imagine. I think if given the choice, most people would rather have something a bit dressed up than plain. I'm not arguing that guns need to engraved to be beautiful. Quite the contrary. A gun can be very artful and still be plain (I think my Lefever H is a good case in point. Beautiful lines, beautiful wood, I love looking at it, but it's plain), but the idea that function over form is paramount just doesn't square with reality in my opinion. Show me a house that doesn't have at least some art of some kind on the walls. We humans like to look at nice things. It's our nature.
