You're not accused of copying yourself.
I am accusing you of being part of the problem you so adamantly hate. You call yourself a designer and you dislike imitations and copies but you allow two cue makers to pass off your designs as their own without a care in the world.
If you care about originality, would you not want the two cue builders to build their own style of cues? They are not only passing off your designs as their own but they are both doing it simultaneously.
Clearly, you could have made an exclusive design for each but instead you didn't.
Who knows what other machine's you have programmed to produce this style.
Ahhhhh... YOU JUST SAID IT.... S T Y L E!!....BRAVO!!!!!
Just like changing veneer colors or even putting radius's on diamond shapes, what I do is a STYLE. It just happens to be one that some makers have gravitated to. I HAVE HELPED A FEW DELIVER. END OF STORY.
Now to address your comment of "Clearly, you could have made an exclusive design for each but instead you didn't."
What did I make that is the SAME for both OR any other makers?... ANSWER: NOTHING. Each is individual and different.
The fact that you can't tell the difference just makes my point of you being of ignorance royalty....