Restoring your gun is like having your favorite old car repainted and refurbished. You might not get all your money back when you sell it, but if it makes you happy in the meantime, so what? If some of the other guys don't agree with that, good for them. Its your gun. Give it a quality restoration if that will make it more enjoyable to you. Life is too short to care what someone else thinks of it.

"Life is too short to hunt with an ugly gun".