Thanks for the comments. I like it brassy, m'self, looks more industrial to me and that's a style I tend to like, plus the photo bleeds out a little of the contrast despite my attempts to rebalance it, but I understand fully where you're coming from. On the other hand, I had a little bit of a budget to work on. I've done wood handles before and certainly could have done it on this, but that would have been an extra 20-30 USD. Plus this was part of a matching set, so then the other would would have needed wood on it as well. Suddenly that's an extra 50 USD the client didn't want to spend.