They did joints like that when they started doing CnC work. Not a particularly collectable cue. But it might be one of the better players. The joints charactoricts insured a dead center placement.
I've got the same cue except in red and sent pics to Evan. His reply was:
"This is a CS-06..Evan Clarke" I paid $400.00 for mine. The guy selling said he'd paid $1400.00 new......