I had a Luxeon and the base had a flare in it with or without the background, I am not knocking the craftmanship in making or constructing luxeon saber I think you and Ultra and all the other builders out there do great work, but its a technology that I dont have much interest in, I think MR stock sabers are better with one exception they can break but I have dueled with my MR sabers hard and not one except for my Mace ROTS has ever had a light break, flicker or turn off completly