Enigma.
I dig these mysteries.
Several could be and couldn't be. Matches up with a few makers generally but not perfectly with any.
Clearly we all regognize the design.
The materials are good, execution details are off.
Clearly has some age. Old type finish shrinkage. The joint face on that shaft was treated like a cheap hooker ripped off her pimp.
Somebody "loved" it like Dr. Lecter loved meat.
Clearly Stroud made 18 pin cues, I am surprised it was not more widely known, we have seen them in the forum before. But he didn't make such gross technical errors in execution.
Those dots look like they were put in by Marty Feldman.
Of course, had to put a new handle in it and make sure the points don't line up with the butt sleeve windows.
Horn? Maybe-ish if he was drunk when he made it.
Masker ran out of shaft wood and made up for length with the ferrule? LOL!
Wow.
Enigma.
OK. Someone took a JW, got drunk with a Dremel, decided to put some dots in it. Then they decided they didn't like it and sold it to a banger that couldn't find his hammer and used the shaft joint face to drive some brad nails. They broke the handle, had Barney the cue hack down the road replace it with the points out of line with the butt sleeve. The original wrap was lost and some spare fishing line was put on and single pressed. This all happened in 1978 before it was tossed into the back seat of a Trans Am and left in long term parking at an airport where the sun yellowed and faded everything and trashed the finish.
Funny. It's so cool and so screwed up at the same time.
Has anybody looked at that shaft wood? Holy shit.
