Originally Posted by Mark IV

I get the "to each his own/different strokes" thing, no problem, but sometimes it just gets pointlessly ridiculous,self-indulgent, and counter-productive.

I follow the local/statewide classified sites pretty closely, and I routinely see perfectly good,very popular guns come up all the time, that somebody drastically screwed with trying to make it "their own", and then later they're frustrated and disappointed that nobody wants the damn thing when they try to sell or trade it. (and despite anyone's belief they're never getting rid of it, you can't possibly be sure of that).

Again, the OP is obviously free to do as he likes, and if he's happy, then that's great, I stipulate to all that, but purposely wrecking the re-sale potential of a perfectly good item for no real substantive reason, just isn't a real swift idea.