diff --git a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/ShardedJedisPool.java b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/ShardedJedisPool.java
index 75916145bb..87f9b6dd31 100644
--- a/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/ShardedJedisPool.java
+++ b/src/main/java/redis/clients/jedis/ShardedJedisPool.java
@@ -34,7 +34,12 @@ public ShardedJedisPool(final GenericObjectPoolConfig<ShardedJedis> poolConfig,
 
   public ShardedJedisPool(final GenericObjectPoolConfig<ShardedJedis> poolConfig,
       List<JedisShardInfo> shards, Hashing algo, Pattern keyTagPattern) {
-    super(poolConfig, new ShardedJedisFactory(shards, algo, keyTagPattern));
+    this(poolConfig, new ShardedJedisFactory(shards, algo, keyTagPattern));
+  }
+
+  public ShardedJedisPool(final GenericObjectPoolConfig<ShardedJedis> poolConfig,
+      PooledObjectFactory<ShardedJedis> shardedJedisPooledObjectFactory) {
+    super(poolConfig, shardedJedisPooledObjectFactory);
   }
 
   @Override
@@ -55,7 +60,7 @@ public void returnResource(final ShardedJedis resource) {
   /**
    * PoolableObjectFactory custom impl.
    */
-  private static class ShardedJedisFactory implements PooledObjectFactory<ShardedJedis> {
+  public static class ShardedJedisFactory implements PooledObjectFactory<ShardedJedis> {
 
     private final List<JedisShardInfo> shards;
     private final Hashing algo;
diff --git a/src/test/java/redis/clients/jedis/tests/ShardedJedisPoolTest.java b/src/test/java/redis/clients/jedis/tests/ShardedJedisPoolTest.java
index f0fb5489e7..2e8f300b99 100644
--- a/src/test/java/redis/clients/jedis/tests/ShardedJedisPoolTest.java
+++ b/src/test/java/redis/clients/jedis/tests/ShardedJedisPoolTest.java
@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@
 import java.net.URISyntaxException;
 import java.util.ArrayList;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.concurrent.atomic.AtomicInteger;
 
+import org.apache.commons.pool2.PooledObject;
 import org.apache.commons.pool2.impl.GenericObjectPoolConfig;
 import org.junit.Before;
 import org.junit.Test;
@@ -20,6 +22,7 @@
 import redis.clients.jedis.ShardedJedisPipeline;
 import redis.clients.jedis.ShardedJedisPool;
 import redis.clients.jedis.exceptions.JedisExhaustedPoolException;
+import redis.clients.jedis.util.Hashing;
 
 public class ShardedJedisPoolTest {
   private static HostAndPort redis1 = HostAndPortUtil.getRedisServers().get(0);
@@ -262,4 +265,28 @@ public void checkResourceIsCloseable() throws URISyntaxException {
     }
   }
 
+  @Test
+  public void checkOverrideFactoryValidateMethod() {
+    AtomicInteger counter = new AtomicInteger(0);
+
+    ShardedJedisPool.ShardedJedisFactory overriddenFactory = new ShardedJedisPool.ShardedJedisFactory(
+        shards, Hashing.MURMUR_HASH, null) {
+      @Override public boolean validateObject(PooledObject<ShardedJedis> pooledShardedJedis) {
+        counter.incrementAndGet();
+        return super.validateObject(pooledShardedJedis);
+      }
+    };
+
+    GenericObjectPoolConfig<ShardedJedis> poolConfig = new GenericObjectPoolConfig<>();
+    poolConfig.setTestOnReturn(true);
+    ShardedJedisPool pool = new ShardedJedisPool(poolConfig, overriddenFactory);
+    try (ShardedJedis jedis = pool.getResource();) {
+      jedis.set("foo", "bar");
+      assertEquals(0, counter.get());
+    }
+    assertEquals(1, counter.get());
+
+    pool.destroy();
+  }
+
 }