The Jacoby HB Collection is nine handcrafted cues, HB1 through HB8 plus a newer V2 refresh, built around a mix of traditional cue styling and contemporary inlay work. Every HB cue ships with a 12.7mm Ultra Pro shaft, a Radial joint, and cored construction with a three-point weighting system. We carry 11 HB cues, priced from about $760 up to about $1,800, with wrapped and wrapless options across the lineup.
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The HB Collection sits toward the top of Jacoby's standard lineup, built in the same Nekoosa, Wisconsin shop where David Jacoby and his son Shane started as a cue repair business in 1982 before building their first cue. Brandon Jacoby, who now owns the company and runs its day-to-day shop work, oversees a collection Jacoby itself describes as nine beautifully handcrafted cues that mix traditional cue style with contemporary inlay patterns, an approach that shows up in the cue-by-cue variety across HB1 through HB8 rather than one repeated design. Published retail listings read on Jacoby as a whole, that the company keeps production smaller so its team can focus on precision building and quality control, apply directly to a collection like this one, where the inlay work is the point of the cue rather than an add-on. Within Jacoby's own lineup, the HB Collection sits above the budget-oriented MAG series and the single-price Element line, and alongside the Heritage Collection as one of Jacoby's two heaviest-inlay standard series, the difference being that Heritage is the line Brandon Jacoby personally signs while HB is not.
Every cue in the HB Collection is built with a cored construction and a three-point weighting system, meaning weight can be adjusted at three points along the cue rather than only at the butt cap. That matters for balance more than raw weight: two players who both want a 19-ounce cue can end up preferring a different weight distribution between the tip and the butt, and a three-point system gives Jacoby, or a shop working on the cue later, more places to fine-tune that balance than a single weight bolt does. It also means an HB cue can be adjusted for balance later in its life, rather than being locked to whatever distribution it left the shop with.
Every HB cue ships standard with one of Jacoby's Ultra shafts, in the 12.7mm Ultra Pro spec. The Ultra shaft is built from 140 pieces of rotary-cut veneer, laminated together and radially spliced rather than milled from a single blank. Radially splicing that many thin pieces of maple spreads the shaft's grain more evenly around its circumference than a one-piece shaft, which is the basis for Jacoby's claim of more power, smoothness and radial consistency, meaning the shaft should feel and perform the same no matter which side of the shaft strikes the cue ball, along with better resistance to chalk buildup and more durability over repeated play. On a collection priced for the inlay work as much as the hit, shipping the same performance shaft used across Jacoby's higher-end lines rather than a lower-grade production shaft is a meaningful spec, not just a checkbox.
The original HB Collection scales in price with the amount of hand-placed inlay and exotic-wood work on each model. On Jacoby's own site, pricing starts at $895 for the HB1 and climbs to $1,895 for the HB8, the collection's most heavily inlaid cue. Our own stock reflects a similar spread, with the JCB01, a multi-color cue with no wrap, at about $765, the JCB02 at about $835, and the leather-wrapped JCB03 and JCB04 running about $1,045 and $1,250. At the top of the run, the JCB05 in leather wrap and the no-wrap JCB08 both list in the $1,250 to $1,525 range, our highest-priced HB models currently in stock.
Jacoby has since updated part of the line with "V2" versions, including the HB1 V2 we carry at about $895 and the HB3 V2 at about $1,195, refreshed builds of the original design rather than a separate collection. Buyers comparing an original HB model against its V2 counterpart should expect the same cored construction, three-point weighting and Ultra Pro shaft, with the V2 designation marking a build update rather than a change in core spec.
The HB Collection is not a single-wrap lineup. Of the 11 HB cues we stock, 5 have no wrap at all, 3 use a linen wrap, and 3 use a leather wrap, so the collection covers a smooth turned handle and two different wrapped textures within the same series rather than forcing a single grip style across every model. If grip material matters more to you than the inlay pattern itself, it is worth checking the wrap on a specific HB model before you buy rather than assuming the whole collection matches.
Color across our HB stock leans heavily toward natural wood tones: 11 of 11 cues show a tan or brown finish as their primary or secondary color, consistent with the exotic hardwood focus of the collection, with a single blue model and a single red model rounding out the run. That is a narrower color spread than Jacoby's brighter production lines like MAG or Element, which fits a collection built around wood and inlay work rather than solid color paint.
All 11 HB cues we carry use Jacoby's Radial joint, a threaded pin-and-collar design, and all 11 run the 12.75mm classic wood Ultra Pro shaft described above. Color runs mostly tan and brown across this collection's natural wood finishes, with a handful of blue and red models. Because every HB cue shares the same joint and shaft spec, an HB Collection shaft is interchangeable across the whole series, so a player who owns an HB1 can pick up a spare Ultra Pro shaft sized for an HB8 and expect the same fit. If you want a spare or upgraded shaft down the line, our shafts section carries Jacoby shafts built to the same Radial pin.
The HB Collection suits a player who wants a cue that looks handmade and one-of-a-kind rather than a production run with a decal, and who is comfortable paying Jacoby's mid-to-upper price tier for that inlay work. Jacoby's sponsored roster spans six pro players, Elliott Sanderson, Emily Duddy, Jason Lynch, Briana Miller, Albany Gonzalez and Jon Kramer, which indicates cues across the Jacoby range are built to hold up to competitive play rather than sit as a display piece, even with an inlay-heavy design like this one. Sanderson himself, a player born in Barnsley, England, moved into full-time competition and partnered with Jayson Shaw to represent Great Britain at the 2022 World Cup of Pool. Jacoby has also placed highly in the American Cuemakers Association's Cue of the Year People's Choice vote at the Hopkins Super Billiards Expo every year since the award started in 2008, a peer competition among cue builders that speaks most directly to a design-forward collection like this one, where the inlay artistry is being judged by other cue makers rather than by sales figures.
HB Collection cues carry Jacoby's standard lifetime warranty on components against material and manufacturing defects, excluding warpage and normal wear parts, the tip, ferrule, finish, wrap and bumper. A covered cue is repaired or replaced with a product of equal value at no charge, the coverage is non-transferable to the original buyer, and it applies only when the cue is bought directly from Jacoby or through an authorized Jacoby dealer. Third-party alterations, after-market parts, mishandling, or repair work by anyone other than Jacoby will void it. Jacoby's own return window closes at 30 days from purchase, and an approved return on an unused cue carries a 20% restocking fee, a detail worth budgeting for on a collection where the entry price starts near $900. One point of fine print to know: some spec sheets for Jacoby cues divide coverage into "Lifetime" and "Limited" categories, but Jacoby's own warranty page describes a single uniform lifetime policy on components with no separate Limited tier, so treat the lifetime-on-components language above as the manufacturer's standing policy for the HB Collection.
A long-running AZBilliards forum thread on Jacoby cues is generally positive on build quality and describes the company as easy to deal with, though several posters flagged resale value as a weak point across Jacoby's lineup, HB included, compared to some other premium brands. Shaft taper feedback was mixed in the same discussion, one poster praising the taper and playability, another describing Jacoby's tapers as thick and prone to throwing the cue ball off line. That kind of feedback is anecdotal rather than a guarantee of how any one HB cue will feel in your hands, and it is worth remembering that the taper comments in that thread were about Jacoby's shafts broadly, not the HB Collection specifically, so your own hit with the Ultra Pro shaft may land closer to one description than the other, and the only way to know for certain is to spend some time at the table with it yourself.
See the rest of Jacoby's range in our Jacoby pool cues category, or browse our full pool cues selection to compare against other brands.
The joint is what decides whether a shaft fits, and every cue in Jacoby HB Collection Cues uses the Radial pin. That is the same Radial pin used across JFlowers and Universal, so shafts move between them — always confirm the exact pin before buying.
Every HB cue ships with a 12.7mm Ultra Pro shaft, Jacoby's wood shaft built from 140 pieces of radially spliced veneer.
All HB cues use Jacoby's Radial joint, a threaded pin-and-collar design standard across the collection.
It varies by model. Of the HB cues we carry, some have no wrap, some use a linen wrap, and some use a leather wrap.
The V2 designation marks a refreshed build of the original design. Core construction and the 12.7mm Ultra Pro shaft stay the same.
On Jacoby's own site, HB Collection pricing runs from $895 for the HB1 up to $1,895 for the HB8. Our stock runs from about $760 to about $1,800.
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