"I’m a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible." is one of my favorite phrases I've found in a book (Right there by also William's Neuromancer's the sky is set in a dead tv channel - not verbatim here)
I put the shotgun in an Adidas bag and padded it out with four pairs of tennis socks, not my style at all, but that was what I was aiming for: If they think you're crude, go technical; if they think you're technical, go crude. I'm a very technical boy. So I decided to get as crude as possible. These days, though, you have to be pretty technical before you can even aspire to crudeness. I'd had to turn both those twelve-gauge shells from brass stock, on the lathe, and then load them myself; I'd had to dig up an old microfiche with instructions for hand-loading cartridges; I'd had to build a lever-action press to seat the primers-all very tricky. But I knew they'd work.
Meant to evoke gray at the time, later it evoked bright blue, and now it makes no sense at all.