Cricket Phaser - metal core, lucite stand option - Star Trek The Next Generation

Description

This is a heavy, fully-weighted, metal core Cricket phaser as seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek Voyager. I created the design myself from the ground up, and modeled it after the only known and authenticated Type 1 Star Trek phaser ever seen in public auction.
I made this out of the Galaxy series of Prusament, the hardest metallic thermoplastic that I've ever encountered. I have to import the stuff from the Czech Republic because all the other materials, after considerable trial-and-error, just looked and felt cheap. No material except Prusament had the metallic, gunmetal and zinc reflective sheen in the original.
This has a metal core. After considerable feedback from many Star Trek fans, I chose a weight that everyone said they would expect such a weapon of this size to have in real life. It feels beefy in your hands. If you want to know how heavy it feels, see the weight comparison photo with a stack of quarters. Hold this many quarters in your hand and you know what it will feel like. This increases my shipping costs, but I'll still ship it for free.
I designed props for television back in the day. Nowadays, I usually don't design props which dozens of other people have already done. But I made an exception for this one because the ones that I've seen and held--even the best looking ones--weigh absolutely nothing, and really feel kind of cheap in your hands. Second, some of the outlandish painted and colored plastic used in other designs look just plain silly. My design mimics what the device would actually look like in a real-life encounter in the Star Trek future, in the phaser style first used by Wesley Crusher in Encounter at Farpoint. If you want a cricket phaser that has colored parts with red fins, orange buttons and green simulated lights, then I would recommend bidding on one of those--there are plenty on eBay. If you want sound effects or lights, then I recommend the 1992 Playmates plastic one--also on eBay. My goal here is instead balancing Star Trek canon realism with true-to-life expectation of what the "Glock 43 of the future" would actually look like sitting, powered off, on Captain Picard's desk.
If you would like the lucite stand for free, buy my other listing that includes it: item number 326037503420. I don't include it by default here because it's very heavy and just eats into my shipping costs. Plus, many people don't want to display it this way, or they have their own stand in mind.
I will ship free in the USA. If you're not happy, just return it.