For over 80 years, Longoni has represented Italian excellence in billiards. Founded in Mariano Comense, near Milan, Longoni is a family-owned company known worldwide for precision, craftsmanship, design, and reliability. Longoni cues are still produced entirely in Italy under the supervision of the Longoni family and are trusted by many top international players.
Environmental attention, workers’ protection, and a deeply Italian management style give the Longoni brand reliability and prestige. Collaborations with many world champions also ensure constant technical and sporting updates across the product range.
The Longoni Papilio Lux Arcobaleno is a limited-edition Italian-made pool cue butt that represents some of the most advanced Longoni technologies combined with famous Italian design. “Papilio,” meaning butterfly in Latin, is inspired by the elegance and beauty of these flying creatures.
The handgrip is composed of dozens of small pieces of wood, carefully matched using Longoni’s famous marquetry technique. The forearm and lower ring feature precious inlays and unique Longoni ONDA wavy CNC rings on black Ural wood, creating a refined and highly recognizable appearance.
Ural is Longoni’s own branded wood material, made from European hornbeam, a light-colored, hard, sustainable European wood known for stability, durability, and medium-to-high density. Longoni applies an innovative deep staining treatment using alternating pressurization and depressurization techniques, allowing a black ebony-like stain to penetrate deeply into the wood. This process highlights the natural grain and gives the cue a rich, almost black appearance with depth and character.
The famous Longoni ONDA wavy rings are CNC-made and are one of the clear points of originality in Longoni high-end cues. They are made from different materials and shaped to create a distinctive wavy effect. These rings are not only decorative, but also part of the cue’s structure.
The VP2-S joint offers quick locking and unlocking, a firm and secure connection for efficient energy transfer, strong resistance to humidity and wear, and precise butt-to-shaft alignment.
This cue also features Longoni’s HEXA-CORE technology, the latest evolution in the construction technique of Longoni butts. HEXA-CORE combines the silence of the X-CORE metal system and the harmony of the XYLOCORE system, and is mainly used for pool and carom cues.
The component that joins the two parts of the butt is made individually with numerical control from Ergal aluminum and is equipped with grooves to calibrate elasticity and fix the piece mechanically as well as chemically. It is installed more precisely than traditional systems and helps guarantee a long life of the cue.
This cue includes the complete 3Lobite system with a 20 cm Longoni Xtendo extension included.
This version is supplied with the Longoni S2 12.8 mm shaft, part of Longoni’s Stratos laminated shaft line. The S2 shaft is made from 10 highly selected Canadian hard rock maple slices and is designed as an elastic, responsive shaft with excellent control, especially for players who use strong spin and extreme English.
Longoni’s Stratos laminated shaft concept was developed to reduce the natural inconsistencies of traditional wood shafts. Instead of relying on a single piece of wood, Longoni selects wood slices by weight, straight grain, and quality, then laminates them together to create a more consistent and stable shaft.
The S2 shaft features Longoni’s JBR2 ferrule with high-density G10 support and proprietary low-deflection technology. This front-end construction is designed to reduce cue ball deflection while improving the sound and feel of the hit.
Longoni also uses Vibes-Foam technology near the joint area of its laminated shafts. A long internal hole is filled with special foam to help compensate density, absorb vibrations, improve balance, and enhance acoustic response.
Longoni Stratos shafts are produced entirely in Italy. The wood is carefully selected, dried, stabilized, laminated, and individually checked before final labeling. Each Stratos shaft is uniquely numbered for traceability and labeled with product specifications, including code, name, diameter, and exact weight.
Each cue is hand-numbered and made in Italy by Longoni, a family-owned company known worldwide for premium billiard cues since 1945.
Product Features:
- Genuine Longoni Papilio Lux Arcobaleno pool cue with Longoni S2 Stratos shaft
- Limited edition model — only 200 pieces
- Made in Italy by Longoni, a family-owned company with over 80 years of billiard cue craftsmanship, produced in Mariano Comense near Milan under Longoni family supervision
- Inspired by the butterfly, with refined Italian design and advanced Longoni cue technology
- Crafted from black Longoni Ural wood with maple construction
- Handgrip composed of dozens of small wood pieces using Longoni’s famous marquetry technique
- Forearm and lower ring feature precious inlays and unique Longoni ONDA wavy CNC rings
- ONDA rings are made from different materials, shaped to create a wavy effect, and serve as both decorative and structural elements
- Precision VP2-S stainless steel joint offers quick locking and unlocking, a firm and secure connection for efficient energy transfer, strong resistance to humidity and wear, and precise butt-to-shaft alignment
- HEXA-CORE butt construction for advanced stability, feel, and long cue life
- 3Lobite-complete system includes a 20 cm Longoni Xtendo extension
- Includes Longoni S2 29" American VP2 12.8 laminated Stratos shaft
- Longoni S2 Stratos shaft made from 10 highly selected Canadian hard rock maple slices, with American pool shaft profile, 12.8 mm tip diameter, Kamui OEM tip, and Imago ring.
- Elastic and responsive laminated construction designed for control, feel, and extreme English, while improving consistency and stability compared with traditional one-piece wood shafts.
- Advanced front-end and vibration-control technology including JBR2 ferrule with high-density G10 support, Longoni proprietary low-deflection technology, and Vibes-Foam near the joint area to absorb vibration, improve balance, and enhance acoustics.
- Made entirely in Italy and individually quality checked, with careful wood selection, drying, stabilizing, lamination, final quality control, unique production numbering, and a shaft label showing code, name, diameter, and exact weight
- Hand-signed / hand-numbered cue
- Forward-balanced feel commonly associated with Longoni VP2 joint cues
- Designed for elegance, power, stability, precision, and consistent play
- Includes Longoni complementary accessories
Product Specifications:
- Brand: Longoni
- Model: Papilio Lux Arcobaleno
- Cue Type: Pool cue
- Cue length: 58" (147,3 cm)
- Shaft Included: Longoni S2 29" - American VP2 12.8 mm
- Shaft Line: Longoni Stratos
- Shaft Type: Laminated wood shaft
- Shaft Structure: 10 Highly selected Canadian hard rock maple slices
- Discipline: Pool
- Shaft Profile: American
- Shaft Length: 29"
- Tip Diameter: 12.8 mm
- Ring: Imago
- Tip: Kamui OEM
- Ferrule Technology: JBR2 ferrule with G10 support
- Shaft Technology: Low-deflection construction, Vibes-Foam
- Shaft Traceability: Uniquely numbered and labeled
- Butt Wood: Ural wood, maple
- Joint: VP2-S stainless steel precision joint
- Extension System: 3Lobite-complete
- Extension Included: 20 cm Longoni Xtendo extension
- Butt Technology: HEXA-CORE
- Internal Component: CNC-machined Ergal aluminum
- Decorative Technology: ONDA wavy CNC rings
- Butt Joint Collar Diameter: 21.3 mm
- Butt Lower Collar Diameter: 31 mm
- Butt Length: 735 mm / 29”
- Butt Profile: Two conicity / dual taper profile
- Cue Weight: Choose the weight; standard weight is approx. ~18.5 oz (~525 gr)
- Wrap: No Wrap
- Limited Edition: Yes — 200 pieces
- Pro Player Model: No
- Serial Number: Hand-signed / hand-numbered
- First Production Year: 2020
- Country of Manufacture: Italy
Included Accessories
- Longoni NEO neoprene bag
- 3Lobite 20 cm Xtendo extension
- Joint protectors
- Tip protector
- Longoni cues brochure
- Longoni accessories brochure
- Longoni certificate
