Opinions on Jacoby Cues
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Have seen
and stroked quite a few Jacoby's - A good friend of mine is a representative for Jacoby cues. Usually nice designs and inlays, butts are not slim but a little slimmer than normal (Which I like btw). Shaft taper is good. Hit is pretty good, but not what I would call real good (Schons have a better hit, IMO).
I have seen up to $3,000 Jacobys, one with a stingray wrap which I liked.
My only problem with them is the weight was felt like it was in the top half of the wrap, and I like my cues to be more forward balanced where the weight is felt 'evenly' distributed between my grip hand and bridge hand. Each of his cues seemed to have the same balance I just described.
Schons (at least ones >$700) have pretty good balance that I could live with, but still not quite as good as a custom that is made to my specs.
and stroked quite a few Jacoby's - A good friend of mine is a representative for Jacoby cues. Usually nice designs and inlays, butts are not slim but a little slimmer than normal (Which I like btw). Shaft taper is good. Hit is pretty good, but not what I would call real good (Schons have a better hit, IMO).
I have seen up to $3,000 Jacobys, one with a stingray wrap which I liked.
My only problem with them is the weight was felt like it was in the top half of the wrap, and I like my cues to be more forward balanced where the weight is felt 'evenly' distributed between my grip hand and bridge hand. Each of his cues seemed to have the same balance I just described.
Schons (at least ones >$700) have pretty good balance that I could live with, but still not quite as good as a custom that is made to my specs.
I guess the hit will be a little different depending if the joint is a 5/16x14 or radial. I personally have a radial wood to wood simple jacoby and the hit is nice and solid.
I haven't played that much with it yet (I am away abroad for a few months) but the shafts have a stiff taper and it is easy to move the cueball (sniper tips).
I think it is a nice cue with good playability. Not sure about resale value since I live in Spain and resale here is always crap, especially when they only know about predator.
I haven't played that much with it yet (I am away abroad for a few months) but the shafts have a stiff taper and it is easy to move the cueball (sniper tips).
I think it is a nice cue with good playability. Not sure about resale value since I live in Spain and resale here is always crap, especially when they only know about predator.
I owned one Jacoby and loved it. Good hitting and nice looking. I put a 314 shaft on it though.
Jacoby is a very good cue for the price. For the amount of work that goes into them, his prices are relatively low. Great people to deal with also!
Just received my new Jacoby today!
I went ahead and ordered a Jacoby D8. It turned out to be as beautiful as pictured in Jacoby's website.
http://www.jacobycue.com/cue_detail.cfm?cue=d8
Very clean cue, inlays, points etc are perfect. No raising around the rings.
wrap is smooth and tight.
Tried all of my shafts with it (314-2, Z2, Universal RS, Universal TX8). Seemed to favor the Z2 & TX8. Balance is forward but my other player is a Phillipi so no big difference there.
All in all for the money my vote is for Jacoby over Schon.
I went ahead and ordered a Jacoby D8. It turned out to be as beautiful as pictured in Jacoby's website.
http://www.jacobycue.com/cue_detail.cfm?cue=d8
Very clean cue, inlays, points etc are perfect. No raising around the rings.
wrap is smooth and tight.
Tried all of my shafts with it (314-2, Z2, Universal RS, Universal TX8). Seemed to favor the Z2 & TX8. Balance is forward but my other player is a Phillipi so no big difference there.
All in all for the money my vote is for Jacoby over Schon.
Mine was done in under six months
Cost was under 1200 , with regular shaft and Z2 shaft
I like it