Looking for Dufferin Catalog Model Info - Windsor?

[Chopdoc]

Not to derail the thread too much, but I’m curious as to why I see a sea of carbon fiber shafts t leagues and tournaments.

Is it the easy way out instead of learning to work with deflection?

Is good shaft wood hard to find and expensive?

is it so they don’t have to worry about warping?

Is there a consistency to them?

I’ll never use them, I’m just curious.

Good questions.

Tech and gear are attractive, no doubt.

The same kind of thinking that led us to focus on grain count, density, shaft weight, and taper. Then lighter ferrules, laminated then radially spliced shafts, Stroud's foundational advances in shaft engineered construction... Predator... OB... and onward.

I think it's a natural progression.

I am still on "good wood" myself, and the artistry and engineering involved. I don't even own any laminated shafts except for one that came with a two piece Dufferin.

And that brings us full circle. Even Dufferin produced flat laminated shafts, and that was back in the days of the leaf logo cues we all have an affinity for. They even produced full splice butts into laminated maple forearms.

So, not derailed at all.

 

[Chopdoc]

if you intend to play with it than dont mess with it if it hits good. if it isnt your hit, then experiment if you will.

the dufferins with pin in shaft i dont like. so one that was good i had a brass joint put on it and wrapped, and 14 5/16 threads and used one of my great wood shafts and it hits a "ton"

Personally, I think the brown phenolic joint in the original post is beautifully done. No reason to change it unless for practical reasons.

Of course, people can do what they like with their own cue. The one I posted in post #12 won't be modified. I'll keep it original.

"Converting" a 2 piece cue that is already built is stretching the definition of conversion. Especially a cue with inlays, points, wrap, etc.

If we don't like the joint type we can have that changed.

If you want matching rings, change the shaft not the butt. But that's me...

As for pin in shaft, how many people like that unless they are into Robison cues?

 

[Chopdoc]

The cursive "Dufferin" script logo with the underline slash was officially adopted and integrated into commercial retail marketing in 1997.

Instead of filing the new script logo as a standard product-level international trademark for "billiard cues" or "sporting goods," Dufferin's corporate attorneys filed the script mark under Canadian corporate registries for retail showroom signage, storefront branding, and corporate identity. In the Canadian legal system, companies frequently rely on Common-Law Trademark Rights (ownership established purely by widespread public use in commerce) rather than paying for thousands of distinct federal registrations across every sub-product category. Dufferin blanketed their entire catalog, store headers, and higher-end cue butt caps with this script mark under common-law protection from 1997 onward.

When Dufferin Games Ltd. collapsed into receivership and filed for bankruptcy in 2004, the legal rights to the script layout were tied up in Canadian court liquidation proceedings. Because it sat in common-law limbo within the parent company's estate rather than as an active, independent product trademark registry, the historical corporate filing history effectively vanished. The registration was allowed to lapse, become abandoned, or was formally expunged from the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO) files during the court proceedings.

When Cue & Case eventually purchased the brand assets out of the defunct estate liquidation, they took this 1997 script blueprint, added a small red maple leaf accent to the top right, and re-registered it under the modern U.S. and international manufacturing patents you see active today. They bought the rights to the name and historical branding assets out of a defunct Canadian corporate estate liquidation.

This timeline means any Canadian-built cue featuring this exact underline script variant was manufactured in the window between 1997 and late 2003.