They remind me a lot of the Twisted Turtle cues made by Ron Daniels out of Florida. He still makes cues and they play fantastic in my opinion. You can always check out his website for a comparison...I think the website is....
Twistedturtlecues.com
Jason
You are thinking of Marshall Piercy...he disappeared (last post was in 2010) but oddly enough he or someone logged on his account 5/23 of this year.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=195060
Marshall had the idea on constructing cues in a new way that looked like these do when they got put together.
http://forums.azbilliards.com/showthread.php?t=191792
There was someone on AZB a while ago that was making cues very similar to these