A price point issue? I'm more confused,or rather feel more ignorant. If it cost more for the flat top checkering,then we would see it more on the pricier guns but we don't. We just see it occasionally. So, it was a form of checkering that some sports preferred over the pointed checkering and Scott had a fondness for since we see it from the Monte Carlo up to the Premiers.
And yet I don't recall reading about the different methods in books of the vintage era,and beyond. I can't remember it in Greener,Walsh,or Burrard. So if someone can steer me to some material I would appreciate it.
There are many ways that things are done and often they are all the correct way. Don't interperet interest in one method as singlemindedness. Justin