Yea i know, the look and feel is SOOO much better dude. Painting it helped a ton.The paint is clear coated with a special coating that makes it not shinny, sticky, but feels like it is on very well.
EDIT: Sorry about the voice in the video, tried to change it, since my voice is also weird lol, and it only got weirder, but oh well, the video depicted the beauty of the saber well.