Carbonex 13
Model CAB-13
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Carbonex 13: Yonex Japan’s head-light entry Carbonex, listed from 2000 to 2009
A top-light Carbonex at the bottom of the line
The Carbonex 13 (Yonex item code CAB13) is the Carbonex whose Yonex Japan copy rests on balance and shaft alone. That copy, unchanged in substance from 2000 to 2007, promised a light swing from a top-light design (トップライト設計) and a long shaft with the overall length unchanged, so lobs fly easily. It carried the lowest list price of the Carbonex 13, 17 and 23 listed together in 2001, and Yonex gave it no flex word and no player level.
Carbon frame, then a built-in T-joint
Yonex Japan’s pages from 2000 to 2002 list a high-modulus carbon frame (高弾性カーボンフレーム) with an all-carbon shaft; the October 2003 page says only carbon frame. Pages from the 2004 model on list an all-carbon frame and shaft with a built-in T-joint (内蔵T型ジョイント) and print 日本製, made in Japan. Recommended tension was 14–16 lb on the mains and 16–18 lb on the crosses in 3U through 2003, with 16–18 and 18–20 lb for 2U, then one 14–18 lb range. By February 2005 the copy read head-light (ヘッドライト) instead of top-light, and clears instead of lobs.
No named user
Yonex documents no player or advisory-staff user of the Carbonex 13. Its copy names no level of player at all, unlike the Carbonex 17, advertised to intermediate players and students, and the Carbonex 23, for mid and upper players.
Several colors under one code, and a 13F
The 13 kept one item code through several designs: Dark Blue (112) and Red (001) on the 2000 page, both marked as new colors; Navy/Lavender (108) and Black/Silver (076) on the April 2001 page, also marked new; Navy/Silver (231) on the page Yonex Japan later filed with its 2002 old models; Light Sax (198) in 2003 and the 2004 model; Light Blue (033) from 2005 to 2007. The 2000–2002 pages list 3U and 2U in grips 4 and 5, while the later Navy/Silver old-model page and every page from October 2003 list 3U only. Yonex Japan’s old-model index also carries a Carbonex 13F in its 2006 group, with no product page found; how the F differs from the 13 is undocumented.
Japan only, retired in 2008–2009
Every Yonex source found for the 13 is Yonex Japan’s: product pages from 2000 to 2007, old-model pages, and the old-model index, which lists it in both the 2008 and 2009 production-end groups, the second with the Carbonex 23, Ti 3 and Nanospeed 7000. Yonex does not say which design belongs to which group. Yonex Japan’s racket list still showed it in April 2007. Yonex’s 1999 Asian spec chart and 2000 Asian catalog have no Carbonex 13, and Yonex USA’s Carbonex page of 2002–2004 names three other Carbonex models. Yonex printed ¥9,500 for the frame with a full racket case, and ¥9,975 including tax (本体価格 ¥9,500) on pages from 2005. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Names to keep apart
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 13 is documented. The risk is identity: the 13 is a different racquet from the Carbonex 13F, from the Carbonex 15 Long of the export catalogs (which has its own page) and from the 17 and 23 sold beside it. Yonex’s pages never show a frame print, so the item code and color code on the racquet or its packaging are the only checks they support.
A quiet nine years
The Carbonex 13 had no documented launch date, no player and no export listing. Its documented span runs from 2000 to 2009, ending in the year the Carbonex 35 arrived and Yonex Japan retired both the 13 and the 23. Yonex’s own pages are the only record: a price, a color code, a weight class and two sentences of copy.
Yonex Japan’s pages for the Carbonex 13 document: item code CAB13; the name カーボネックス13; grip sizes 4 and 5; weight class 3U (2U on the 2000–2002 pages only); 日本製 from the 2004-model page; recommended tension 14–18 lb from that model on; and the colors Dark Blue 112, Red 001, Navy/Lavender 108, Black/Silver 076, Navy/Silver 231, Light Sax 198 and Light Blue 033. Yonex prints no flex word and no frame length, so a seller’s stiffness claim is not Yonex’s. Read the code carefully: 13F, 15 Long and 17 are different racquets.
A buyer should match the item code and the color code to the list above and ask for the weight class, since only the 2000–2002 pages show 2U. Because the frame was made for a decade in several colors, a seller’s year should rest on the color, and a “Carbonex 13F” listing is not the CAB13. Check the grommets, throat and hoop on a frame that may be 15–25 years old. Yonex documents no player story for the 13, so condition and an exact code matter more than provenance.