My experiences here say otherwise. Go look through a few threads on mages trying to do anything but summon spirits and cast spells, my character thread and your comments being a perfect example.
Feel free to look through my Mage and adept build threads, I don't really think it's a big issue.
What I said wasn't anti-magic, it was anti a problematic focus concept. Foci teeth, is really just an unarmed attack focus, there plenty of other ways to achieve this, boots and knucks being the easiest ways. Getting once teeth enchanted is just nasty. What happens when you add an elemental effect to your focus? Burning teeth? Electric teeth? Metal Teeth (lol)? The repercussions are just not great. and worse if we let this fly now, what do we do when some twinky animal adept build wants to get their animal companions teeth made into a focus. Poor little lassy sent to the talismonger dentist.
If you want an example of non traditional mage i think there is one a couple below this about bad touch/unarmed attack mage. My advise would be try not to make so many assumptions.
I love how you dismiss my point by saying that it isn't a big deal in your opinion. Probably because you are one of the ones doing it, even in this very post ("it's just nasty"). You know what else is nasty, lopping off body parts. Have you ever said to a cyber character "you shouldn't get cyber, it's just nasty"?
Then you go into a slippery slope argument. First the OP was asking about a weapon foci. Regardless, elemental body would effect the whole body, even if the tattoo is scrimshaw on the teeth. Second, you are the only one who brought up animal companions. That aside, I would love to play (or DM) with an adept who did scrimshaw on his animal companion's teeth to give it's bite ki powers rather than yet another vanilla adept who increases agility, firearms skill, and shoots things extra well.
And finally, it's advice, not advise. Advise is a verb, you advise someone. Advice is a noun, you give someone advice when you advise them. Furthermore, what I said wasn't an assumption, it was an observation made over nearly 3 years of coming and going from this forum.
P.S. The non-traditional mage you mention is still a mage that runs around casting spells. Hard to get more traditional than that. (But I am well aware of that thread and have given my input in it.)