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Hello Gene, Do you think Chuck's "common 12g A grade", would look better with a plain piece of wood?  JC
"...it is always advisable to perceive clearly our ignorance."ť Charles Darwin
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BDM I pm'd you but don't know if it went through. You can contact me at harrell68@acsalaska.net if you want.
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chuck, that is one pretty stick of wood. I would keep that one too for a very special gun.
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As far as I'm concerned it is not the gun that is worthy of the blanks, it is the owner.
He is the one who shall appreciate a beautiful piece of wood, wherever he chooses to use it.
Is beauty ever out of place?
JC Yes, sometimes it is. Beauty is totality of features. A woman can have beautiful feet (for example) and a plain face. Added up, you still have a plain woman. I don't see many plain women, but see plenty of plain guns. Dressing one feature up just emphasizes the plainess of the other. ...and here I thought an exemplerary feature or trait on a woman offset other features and raised the total. What do I know? Even though I've been mistaken for Pierce Brosnan often, I still can't shoot as well as that other guy Brad Pitt (a.k.a Amarillo Mike).
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It's all about balamce IMO. Whenever the aesthetic side is concerned, be it paintings, houses, people, dogs, horses or shotguns, if there's one feature crying for attention and pushing the others away, the balance is ruined. It's more of a how it's done rather than what exactly is done, and, probably, the same blank of wood can compliment or ruin the perception of the same gun, depending on a number of variables, to say nothing about tastes being all individual and arbitrary. But the theoretical possibility that a gun CAN be "overstocked" is there, I think.
Besides, I always thought the best guns from the good old days had the stocks made of strongest, rather than best-looking, wood...
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My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
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Rob,that is a knockout piece of American walnut! Bobby
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