I had two Meucci Originals,
The first one was a plain birdseye maple, with two shafts, and when i bought it used for 350$, it was just had been refinished. The cue was about 20yrs old and looked damn nice.
And I had several guys who played a game or two with it and said the cue played damn nice too.
Now the only reason i got rid of them was because everyone gave me so much crap for having them.
But oh well.
Now as for the black dot shaft, i played with a Meucci with the black dot shaft and didnt really like the feel of the shaft. but thats just me.