Machine or hand spliced?

[philip in china]

How can I tell if a cue is hand or machine spliced? Does it matter and if so why?

[jaffa.johnson]

Recent thread on this. Did you search?

http://www.oldcues.co.uk/index.php?id=splices

[Deepscrew]

hand spliced will have rounded points, machine will be sharp points.

No it doesnt matter really.