4-6 point cues with colored veneers and linen wraps are my favorite

I'd hazard a guess that it's both the type of tooling used and there's probably less chance of the points being uneven when the points aren't as sharp.

Even if I'm completely wrong, it would probably be a good discussion on Ask the Cuemaker.
It's the construction method. Round tipped points are inlaid rather than "spliced" in. One could argue that short splice points are still inlaid simply because the point wood doesn't extend below the A joint. But short splice points are a installed in a way that is exponentially more similar to full splice than the inlaid points like most production cues have. The pockets for either type of construction can be made using CNC, though.

Seeing the contact point on the object ball.

Reflection helped me beat a handful of road players. The light from the side was almost as strong as the lights over the pool table. As a result the balls seemed a gnat's ass to the side of where they were! Wasn't a lot but when you had to really precisely hit a ball, that lighting would do you dirty! Regular shots went in readily and it took me about a month to figure out why my play would be a little off in there. I couldn't tell the road players about the lighting, that would seem like sharking!(grin)

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