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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

StrokeofLuck
I play with the Becue Naked with the Prime M, 12.5. I like it a lot and like the utility of full carbon for cold weather transport and bar play.
I can tell you that the feel of their shafts in your bridge hand is different than any other CF shaft I've tried, and I've tried quite a few. It just feels smoother and less porous maybe, hard to describe. Almost glass like.
They have a cool weight system that makes changing it out a breeze, if you like to experiment with balance and weight.
From what I've seen, they don't seem to bring high resale on the secondary market in the US, for whatever reason. It seems Predator is the big dog here for resale.
If I ever decided to order to specs I would not do the B Lock joint like mine has, and go radial, and I think I would like a leather wrap.
Is it the best hitting cue I've ever played with? Probably not, but it does play nicely. Best looking? Nope, not even close.
I do find myself going back to it though, even though I still like to experiment with different cues and shafts.
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Mosconi Cup 2025, Dec. 3-6, Alexandra Palace, London

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jbart65 said:
Doesn't matter how good Team Europe is, Jay, upsets happen all the time in every sport. You know what they say in football. on any given Sunday ...

Just a matter of time before the underdog wins. The U.S. is due. If these two teams played ten times, the U.S. would be bound to win two or three of the events.
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Race to 5, alternating breaks....anybody can win if they don't rattle.
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Who builds the Becue, full pool cues, and are they popular?

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I understand that the Becue pool cues, and shafts are made in Italy, but I am curious who makes them.

Are they made in a factory, like maybe Longoni? I understand that some brands have a a factory, like Joss for example, build them a line of cues, so I am not sure if Becue is just a small custom shop, or if they are built in a large production cue factory.

Are they very popular? Maybe in Europe, if not in the USA? I see that Dennis Hatch plays with a Becue, and I wonder how he likes it. I assume he likes it a lot, if he is playing good with it.

The reason I ask is because I do not see them up for sale on ebay, for example. Is there any market for them, if one might need to sell one?

Does anyone here play with a full Becue? That is another issue. I have found very few reviews, from players, who have tried one.

I recall Becue being the 1st company who ever tried to market Carbon fiber cues, and it seems like they are still the only company who builds a full Carbon Fiber cue(?). I wonder why that is.

Anyways, thanks a lot for any thoughts about Becue, and their full cues, if you have ever had the opportunity to try one.

Any experience with the Engage 11.8mm shaft? Does the full Carbon Fiber butt feel / hit very good with one of their shafts, in your opinion?

Thank you very much for any thoughts.
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Mosconi Cup 2025, Dec. 3-6, Alexandra Palace, London

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sudocrushms said:
Said it before so i'll keep it brief: Europe can easily field 3 teams that could be the Americans.
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Maybe, but you can only play five!

Looking at Fargo, the next best five the US could field would be Mike Deschaine, Justin Bergman, Oscar Dominguez, Anthony Meglino and Tony Chohan. Lukas is much further down on Fargo, but he'd be a candidate for the team, too. Not awful, but definitely a big underdog.


That said, I think the current Team USA would stack up just fine against a second or third Team Europe. They would also stack up fine with all but the top Asian team imo.

Europe could field a second team of FSR, Kaci, Ouschan, Wojciech Szewczyk and Kazakis. I think Team USA would only be slight underdogs, at worst. Albin and Kaci have slipped, and FSR and Kaci have both been shaky in team events.

A third Team Europe would be Zielinski, Niels Feijin, Max Lechner, Daniel Maciol and Kledio Kaci. Team USA stacks up just fine with them.

Moving on to Asia.

Team 1: Ko brothers, Yapp, Biado, Chua. They would crush Team USA.

Team 2: Raga, Magpantay, Duong, Oi, Robbie Capito. Team USA would be even odds imo, and favorites on home soil.

Team 3: Wu Kun Lin, Jin Hu Dang, Jefrey Roda, Chang Yu Lung, Regalario. Team USA would be the favorites.

Team 4: Lee Van Corteza, Roland Garcia, Ignacio, Aranas, Harry Vargara. Team USA would be favorites.
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It's Mosconi Week!

sudocrushms
jbart65 said:
Yes, I verify everything. One great thing about AI is it gives all the original sources for its info. I cross check against those sources or other sources.

I not only lived thru the dotcom bubble, by the way, I covered and wrote about it as a journalist.

Lot of speculation, to be sure, and lots of failed companies (Pets.com, Wortldcom, Enron, etc). But the fiber got laid and used, the Internet became huge, and it fundamentally altered the U.S. and global economies.

Some companies - Amazon anybody - even became big and enriched a lot of people. In any case, the stock market only took a few years to recover.

But yes, we have gone astray. Back to pool.
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The difference between the explosion of the Internet and "AI" is "AI" doesn't actually exist. It's just clever software and brute force compute. There's nothing really revolutionary about it except the money being sunk into it (see the OpenAI, Oracle, NVIDIA circle jerk). Those platforms have their uses, but as humans do: we'll just use it to generate memes, skim intellectual property, and break our trust in reality. The environmental, economic, IP, and adjacent implications far outweigh its use.
That's all i have to say 'bout that.


Back on topic: Who do we got for the first matches today? Team is always a tossup, but the first doubles match is gonna be huge. If Fedor and SVB can't win that one, the US is in trouble early. I think it's 3-1 Europe at the end of the day.
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It's Mosconi Week!

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Yes, I verify everything. One great thing about AI is it gives all the original sources for its info. I cross check against those sources or other sources.

I not only lived thru the dotcom bubble, by the way, I covered and wrote about it as a journalist.

Lot of speculation, to be sure, and lots of failed companies (Pets.com, Wortldcom, Enron, etc). But the fiber got laid and used, the Internet became huge, and it fundamentally altered the U.S. and global economies.

Some companies - Amazon anybody - even became big and enriched a lot of people. In any case, the stock market only took a few years to recover.

But yes, we have gone astray. Back to pool.
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