After 2 months and 4 days (and NOTHING was even wrong with it!) my beloved EMPRESS is finally back from repair at UltraSabers.
My Diamond Empress has a white fabric wrap with a brown leather grip over it, carefully trimmed to perfectly expose the yellow Illuminated black A/V switch. The entire hilt is also weatherd with a wire brush wheel. Of course I had to add the custom tag track. The ignition has a quick flash of both blue then green, followed by a shimmering yellow idle. Powering the saber down is also customized with a bright closing flash.
Easily in my top 5 sabers!