ArcSaber 10 Peter Gade
Model ARC-10PG · Peter Gade
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ArcSaber 10 Peter Gade: the 2010 signature frame in white and champagne gold
One of three player models in 2010
In summer 2010 Yonex issued three player models at once: an ArcSaber Z-Slash for Taufik Hidayat, an Armortec 900 Power for Lee Chong Wei and an ArcSaber 10 for Peter Gade. The Gade edition, coded ARC10PG, put his name on Yonex’s control flagship during the last full seasons of his career, and equipment lists commonly give it as his racquet for 2010 and 2011. It is often called the silver edition, because Yonex built the design around what its launch release called Gade’s “gentlemanly silver.” The frame itself is white, with champagne gold along the head and shaft. Years later a very similar white Gade frame appeared in the Legends’ Vision program, and telling the two apart is the first job for any buyer.
A standard ArcSaber 10 underneath
Under the paint the PG is an ArcSaber 10: a high-modulus graphite head with CS Carbon Nanotube and Super HMG, a graphite and Ultra PEF shaft, a built-in T-joint, an isometric head and a Control Support Cap. Retail specifications list it in 3U at 85–89g, with even balance, a stiff shaft and Made in Japan. In a December 2010 BadmintonCentral thread, one owner weighed a PG against a standard frame and worked out a difference of about 2g, inside Yonex’s tolerance. The thread concluded that only the paint differs, though one poster recalled Yonex mentioning a revised T-joint and some thought the PG felt lighter. A reviewer who owned one wrote in 2012 that the only difference he found was the color. No teardown or Yonex statement settles it.
Gade in the PG years
Peter Gade was a former world No. 1 and the 1999 All England champion by the time the PG appeared. Commonly cited equipment lists put him on the red ArcSaber 10 from 2008, on the PG from 2010 into 2011 and on the Voltric 80 from May 2011, before the Voltric Z-Force in his final season. The PG window includes his bronze medal at the 2010 World Championships in Paris; his 2011 bronze in London, where he lost a three-game semifinal to Lin Dan, came after Yonex Japan had him on the Voltric 80. Those were two of his five World Championships medals; he never won the title, and never won an Olympic medal. No Yonex statement or match report confirms which frame he used in a given match, so this page credits no title to the PG. He retired in 2012 and said farewell against Lin Dan at the Copenhagen Masters that December.
The PG versus the Legend Vision Gade
The PG’s identity is in its details. A Japanese owner who documented one in 2012 described white and champagne gold as the base colors, Gade’s signature in red at the lower right of the head and PETER GADE printed on the shaft. A 2012 English-language review adds gray and black accents and a red “P” at the core. The Legend Vision Peter Gade, on sale by late 2016, uses a similar white-and-gold scheme, but photographs of it show the signature printed in black on the shaft below the ArcSaber 10 logo, and it came with a full-length black Legends’ Vision cover. The rest of the ArcSaber 10 family is easy to separate by color: the red original and reissues, and the mostly black 2012 Premium.
A small, easily confused market
By most owners’ accounts the PG is mechanically a standard ArcSaber 10, so any premium a buyer pays is for the edition, its condition and its completeness. That makes identification the whole question. The PG shares its name with the standard frame and its colors with the Legend Vision Gade, so a listing title alone does not establish which racquet is for sale, and a sale of one edition says little about the value of the other. Asking prices for Gade frames vary widely and are not evidence of what buyers pay. Verified completed sales appear in the price panel on this page as they are confirmed.
Fakes and substitutions
Coach Paul Stewart’s review of the ArcSaber 10 warns of many fakes on eBay, and a player edition carrying a famous name is an obvious target. The PG carries two particular risks. One is substitution: a Legend Vision Gade, genuine but a different edition, sold as a 2010 PG, or the reverse. The other is a counterfeit frame painted in PG colors. Because both genuine Gade editions are white and gold, the details that separate them are small: where the signature sits, what cover came with the racquet and what the serial codes show. Compare each of those with photographs of known genuine examples before paying for the edition.
The Gade frame from his playing years
Gade’s name appears on at least three Yonex frames: this ArcSaber 10, the all-white Voltric 80 Peter Gade that Yonex built for his December 2012 farewell, and the Legend Vision ArcSaber 10 that followed his retirement. The PG is the one issued while he was still playing the ArcSaber 10, and that is its case to collectors. Since the frame underneath is, by owners’ accounts, standard, its appeal lies in identity and period. It suits collectors who put the playing era first; the Legend Vision edition suits those building the program’s set of tribute racquets.
Yonex Japan’s release of July 30, 2010 lists it only in 3U with grip 5; retail specifications add Made in Japan, 85–89 g unstrung, even balance and a stiff shaft. The 2010 PG is white with champagne-gold accents and carries Gade’s signature in red on the lower right of the head, with PETER GADE printed on the shaft. A black signature printed on the shaft below the ArcSaber 10 logo points to the Legend Vision edition instead. The serial number should be laser-engraved, not only printed. The hologram should be hard to peel off, and the butt cap should be Yonex’s green with a clean, well-defined O in YONEX; fakes often make it wide and round. Coach Paul Stewart’s checks also apply: sharp graphics, the serial code on the ferrule and minimal twist in the head.
For a Gade collector the PG is the period piece, issued in 2010 while he still played the ArcSaber 10. Buy it on identification first. Ask for clear photographs of the signature placement, the serial codes and the hologram, and pass on listings that cannot distinguish a PG from the Legend Vision edition. As a playing racquet it is, by owners’ accounts, a standard ArcSaber 10, so buyers who want only the feel can look at the red original instead.