Revo has unidirectional fibers, this has woven fibers. Also the coating is different. The coating on the cheap ones is like that found on a cuetec cue. It gets really sticky and dents easily. Also the cheap one has a terrible hit.
Right....like show a picture of any wal-mart cue and then ask "Is this one of them fancy wooden Szamboti cues? Is it made of maple wood same as Szambotis?" Like they are the same just because the base material they are mad of is the same.