To answer any question above, graders can't tell "when" a card was cut. If you ask one and they are honest they will say they can't. And if they said they can I would like to hear how? In my view, I don't care if cut strip cards get a numeric grade but they HAVE to say hand cut...Or I would be a little happier if they were all AUT and no numeric grade, but that train has left the station...
Strips are cool and many that are classified as strip cards aren't strip cards at all. Here is a guy who made a boner
and is a candy box cut card