Object Path Outline Stroke creates jagged edges for curve

When I outline a stroke, the nodes created along the curve are not smooth. Have these weird funky loops.
Here is the images as just a stroke with 40 point weight. The segment showed has 3 anchor points.
Here is the funky loops that I discussed above.
Any idea how to smooth out the curves better and avoid this issue? Trying to build a font in Illustrator before I transfer to Fontographer but this is problematic for all my curves.

Thanks for taking a look guys. I've attached additional screenshots.
Here are the anchor points. The nodes and handles all snap to a 10pt grid (sorry about the bounding box, but you can still see the anchor handles in there).
These are my brush definition settings.
I did create the curves using pen tool, then applied the brush definition to the path.

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