I have been a little under the weather this weekend and just got on my regular computer instead of my tablet. So I could look at the pictures closer up. After seeing what now appears to be silver stitch rings sandwiched in between two silver rings I don't think the cue was made before mid to late nineties. As far as I know I was the first to do that style ring pattern and that was well after the early nineties. In the late 90s I went away from the two silver washers and just used the silver stitch rings. So with the cue probably being late 90s or later this opens up a whole bunch of possibilities.
This cue has a little of this and that from a few cuemaker styles. The inlay work reminds me of Schrager and Schuler. The hollow joint pin was a Schuler style. The shaft inserts are not Schuler style. Either someone just looked at those cues and borrowed this and that or maybe they were once affiliated with one or the other. The only one I know who actually worked with Schrager, Schuler and myself is Dale Hoke. Dale was all over the place with designs and never really developed a recognizable Hoke style. But I don't think Dale built it. Maybe it is someone who worked with Schrager and Schuler. I looked for pictures of Stu Mortenson's cues and could not find any. This is how I spent an otherwise boring afternoon. If the original early nineties time frame was off by a decade or so, making it a 2000s cue then it being some higher end work from the Philippines is a real possibility.
