Amen to your aesthetics Basfu. I like a Taurirs for the value, but I hate the bold script on the side. I feel like we are in "the uglieest gun" thread. I am a minimalist. I don't want engraving, gold leaf, or a varninshed stock or other crap on my gun. Seriously, I traded a Weatherby Mark V ultra fancy, with the burled walnut monte carlo stock and gold enlaid bolt hanle, for a blue collar Merkle shotgun and a Ruger M77, and thought I got the better deal. Honestly, that Weatherby (with its Schmidt and Bender scope 
) made me feel like I'd escaped from a French whorehouse. Beautiful burled wood in the varnished Monte Carlo stock, great engraving, the gold was nice, but it wasn't me. God bless my granddad for getting it for me, but I was much happier with my Ruger straight stock with a B@L Elite on top of it. Not only did it shoot better (minute of coke can at 200 yards), but I didn't feel like a fool carrying it. The lesson is this. Some folks like bling. That's fine, its their call and I won't say them nay. Me? I like plain. Form over function. I gues its why I like Glock and Ruger. 
FQ13 Who just doesn't like a fancy gun. Deep blue and nice wood is as far as I'll go.
I know exactly what you mean. I've owned some very "pretty" rifles and shotguns over the years usually something I got in trade or inheritance. You just don't feel right going in the woods with one of those rifles that has 10+ hours of hand rubbed finish on it. I've lowered my hunting cache down to 4 bolt action rifles, I can't hunt anything in North America and most of the world other than big African game and I'm not going to lose sleep if I drop one or get into nasty bush with them. Three of them have synthetic stocks and one has a matte laminated stock. three are stainless. I can go pretty much everywhere and not worry about messing them up. I still have one Citori that is a little fancy for my taste but at the time I got it it was much harder to find a plain, field grade O/U. I only use it for clays and an open dove field so I'm not as worried about it. If I go anywhere with poor conditions I take a pump or auto loader.
I want my handguns even less fancy, especially in the case of say a Taurus. I don't want a $500-$600 gun someone is trying to make look like a $5000 gun. It's the whole lipstick on a pig thing. Not that a Taurus is a pig, it's a well built tool that is being purchased for self defense. If I ever had the inkling for a highly engraved and polished 1911 I'd buy a Colt. I just don't get why you want to dress up a self defense tool with gold inlays and scroll work, especially when it's done by a machine. I respect the work a craftsman can do on a pistol or long gun with the hand engraving or inlays and it is becoming a lost art. I just don't get why you'd want it on a self defense pistol. I can see a defense attorney trying to twist that into the same argument used if you modify the trigger etc. I don't want anything that draws any unnecessary examination or attention to my defensive pistol.
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