Is it just me, or in post & picture #2, is the shaft bent like a palm tree starting at the joint?
Not as bad as playing with the letter C, but it looks like this particular cue should come with a warning:
Warning: Use of this timber may cause a Banana stroke.
I got good 2 straight Cuetecs before the newer ones came over on the boat with the mangos and panda bears and before they got famous is when I got my old CueTec that was made by George Balabashkauetec, a famous woodworker who made great cues that you would never believe used to be just a tree but they turned out to be real great cues the ones that were the grandaddy of my Cuetec cues that are in my collection.