It may come in handy as a heater with your cooler weather coming on. 
Justin is the winner, his was chosen first! A fun project I would highly recommend to any who style themselves as junkie modders.
I still think your light was the best for sure. No question about it at all. The time, energy and skill put into your lights, far exceeds what most of us ever achieve. I have a rep, but that's because I am just possibly the most vocal modder and that's all. You and others, have shown your superior skills and attention to detail many times.
To me we as the readers here are the real winners watching two craftsmen perform there work in front of us. The inspiration gained cannot be expressed in words. To you both thanks.
Apologies to OL for missing him before. I'll blame what I blame a lot of other things on. I forgot.
Years from now nobody will remember the duck or any of the few lights he quacked over but you have a well deserved reputation based on a splendid array of mods. Thank you for the praise though. I think I enjoy the creative aspect the most, saying what if… and then making it happen.
BOTH of you are winners on top. Its always a pleasure to watch builds from you both. 
Beautiful creation. 
the wood grip adds that aesthetic class to a very unique light.
As n10sivern said, polishing a t**d since a 502b has pretty weak threading. I’d considered starting with an L2 but for what I had in mind the UF was a better choice and I think led to a more attractive light. I still think that a bunch of us starting with the same host and from there anything goes would make for a truly fun event. Maybe a C8 or a tube style, SRK, or whatever. Offset in the year from the regular DIY contest.
With the help of a little liquid nitrogen, turds polish up quite nicely… just watch out when they thaw…
Good suggestion! something like a C8 cook-off comp.
+1. Maybe modding a different light each year? And the model could be revealed only when the comp begins.
That would be a cool idea actually.
As in doing a C8 Comp one year, or a 502, 501, L2, SRK, SK68, etc. and any popular, low-cost budget light that we all know of.
A custom build comp for a single model of light, to see what we all can come up with working within the perimeters of all having to mod the same model of light.
Probably need to reveal it ahead of time so people can get it and the right parts. We’re on the honor system anyway for not jumping the gun as it is, but yeah, a different host each year. Maybe even more than one host choice per year to increase interest and participation. That would allow those of us with access to Maglites to mod them while still having an international option. I’d also love to see the lanyard crowd go off along with any other handle wraps that can be thought up.
A few last minute changes. I got fed up with soldering the driver to the copper pill and made a retaining ring by adding another layer inside some pill stock. Also performed a shave dedome on the XHP 50 using a centering disk as a jig. Lastly figured out a faster way to open up the wire space on a p60 reflector; use a 5/8” hole saw with the pilot bit removed, Cover the emitter hole with tape and wrap the outside of the bit with tape so it fits the pill thread ID. A few minutes instead of easy work instead of half an hour to an hour of painstaking Dremel work. 
The reflector pedestal is a cylinder now instead of cone shaped.
Nice job with the Fujik. Thats a lot neater than what I achieve.
Goop it up and carve away the excess when it’s cured. It’s pretty neat stuff actually.
what to say other than “+1” … and i am in unique position here to say that because i have a confession to make…the “winner” in this RBD and OL contest was decided literally with FLIP COIN… what can i say…i liked the looks of the cherry wood on RBD’s creation but i also liked the crazy idea of racing engine in a flashlight…once again: they are both winners and i must add: most of the people can’t believe that those creations are hand made…
It was certainly that close in the main event. I think 5 different sets of judges would have come up with 5 different rankings.