Hey-hey!!!,
The strip wound, cut core also offers the ability to size the winding area to a particular design requirement. The cut core also has no portion of the magnetic path going perpendicular to the grain orientation. One can also make more than 1 set of cuts in the core. Make the individual gaps smaller, and cut down on Iron( or what ever the alloy )losses.
There are lots of other neat tricks...this is just a few from the front of the book.
cheers,
Douglas