Custom stock work?

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I am right now reading a book called Gunsmithing Kinks that I got from Brownell's. The book is from the late '60s
In it, it talks a lot about different ways to trick out a wooden stock, such as inlayed designs, contrasting fore-end caps, spacers between the main stock and the fore-end, etc.
I remember seeing a lot of this stuff in the early '70s, when I first started getting interested in guns, as a kid.
I don't see it any more at all. Is it like shag carpet? A fad that came and went, none too soon?:p

I don't really care for it much myself, but some examples are kind of nice.

How do you guys feel about this stuff?

If I get into gunsmithing in a big way, I might try doing up one, just as a learning excersize.
 
"inlayed designs, contrasting fore-end caps, spacers between the main stock and the fore-end" - they are in my mind right up there with fins on the back end of automobiles. Ok for the era, I guess, but why would anyone in their right mind think it would look good on a modern model?
 
That is what is reffered to as the "California" or "Weatherby" school of stock design by some of us.
And no, I'm not crazy about a lot of it.
I don't mind a little, but some of that stuff is just plain overdone, IMHO.
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I don't mind an ebony, horn or rosewood nose cap or even a matching grip cap, but NO inlays, white line, weird carving, etc. for me please.
 
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