Queen B 10

The Queen B 10 arrived as part of Bettinardi's 2019 Queen B series, a one-piece milled mallet built, as the maker's page puts it, for "the player seeking a rounded, traditional mallet with softer visual cues and supreme performance benefits with its Micro Honeycomb milled face." That Micro Honeycomb face milling is confirmed on record, corroborated across the maker's own product pages.

The standard 2019-2020 release came precisely milled to weigh 362 grams, with a crescent milled neck for what the maker describes as ideal offset and optimal toe hang. The finish, Champagne Silver, is described by Bettinardi as a glare-resistant PVD coating paired with a sky blue, white, and black paint scheme. A separate Blackout edition of the same head appeared later, murdered out in black PVD with hand-painted bees on the sole and a black Lamkin cord grip, offered ahead of what the maker's page calls the January 19 product launch.

Community opinion, sourced to bettinardi.com itself, praised the head's rounded, traditional mallet shape and its softer visual presentation relative to the sharper-edged mallets elsewhere in Bettinardi's catalog. Within the Queen B line, the 10 reads as the traditionalist's entry, leaning on shape and finish rather than an aggressive milling pattern to set itself apart.