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[Wonko the Sane]

I freely admit that I have some issues with things German, but the so-called German aesthetic is right at the top of that virtual list.  They have the unerring ability to make anything ugly, ungainly, unsightly, and ultimately to me, undesirable.  I fully realize that tools need not be pleasing to the sensitive eye if functionally acceptable and it seems that state exists for some people.  Deep down I suspect that they had a deprived childhood, kept from things of fluid grace and flowing beauty and forced to have only square toys with sharp edges.

 More to be pitied than reviled I'm sure.

 

[ips]

agreed Charlie

beauty is in the eye of the beholder but one can only speculate as to the workings of the mind behind the eyes that hold such things in great esteem.

 

[Jonny English]

A mate of mine has just bought a decent grade parcours, absolutely beautiful gun to be fair, stunning wood and engraving, I would have just preferred a wider rib on it if it were mine. I'm not much of a fan of the super sport but the parcours does look lovely. The main thing that gripes me about the K80 super sport is the basic ones with the black hinge pin and shroud, for the money you spend on even a bog standard one I would still want the action coloured hinge pin and shroud, not some cheap black muck. Well engineered but also well out my price range, and never will be in it.

 

[Wonko the Sane]

Complicated does not equal well engineered.  Things well engineered are notable for their relative simplicity.  Simplicity is the essence of functional aesthetics.  

Hardly anyone looking at a KG internals has the slightest impulse to attempt even the most inconsequential repair.  OTOH Perazzis (for example) are so stone simple that they suffer near obscene abuse by the undeterred incompetent plunging right in to "fix it up".

now I'm going to attempt to unsee some of the previous posting.  Drugs may be involved.

 

[Rosso]

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[Darkside]

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Rosso, are you deliberately picking the ugly ones? I usually think 'less is more' as far as engraving goes...Ed's game scene is stunning, if I had the option to pick a Krieghoff standard engraving, to would be something like Super Scroll...can't get photobucket working tonight, feel free to post s pick if you can be bothered...

...most of the 'upsetting' gun engraving is for the American market, yuck!!!

 

[Rosso]

There you go DarkOne a DarkOne ?

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[ips]

agree with James, I am a scroll man not into game scene etc however I do admire the craftsmanship.

 

[Darkside]

Not a fan of engraved black actions!!! The silver action shows the scroll off, black actions just don't show the engraving

 

[ips]

agreed, again. That's hideous.

 

[EdSolomons]

 

[ips]

that's more like it

 

[Simonix]

I just want to leave this here....

 

[EdSolomons]

I just want to leave this here....

I'd rather you didn't, I've just eaten..!

 

[Rosso]

Not a fan of engraved black actions!!! The silver action shows the scroll off, black actions just don't show the engraving

I am busy trying to please you and feel all the effort I'v gone through has been wasted. I will have to have a re-think. I think you lot are creeping around the Edmaster for some cheap lessons. His guns are top dollar unlike me he has taste which as one gets older seems to go.

 

[Darkside]

I have no doubt you spent a little time and effort, trawling through Krieghoff's custom engraving page, looking for the most ghastly examples of commissioned 'over engraving'...you found them, yuk!!!

 

[Will Hewland]

Krieghoff and Perazzi..

 

[Rosso]

I like him

 

[Simbo]

I know which one i'd prefer to put lead in!

 

[Iggy]