Carbonex 20 Power
Model CAB-20P
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Carbonex 20 Power: the new hard hitter of Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog
The new Carbonex of 1996
On the Carbonex Series’ High Performance pages of Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog, the one model flagged NEW is not the plain Carbonex 20 but the Carbonex 20 Power. It closes the first spread beside the Carbonex 20 Tour, and the two share the catalog’s rating line of 5 for flex, 5 for power and 5 for control; no other model on those pages is rated above 4 for power. That catalog is the only Yonex document known to name the racquet. No Yonex item code, launch price or weight is on record, and the model is absent from Yonex’s Asian catalogs of 1999 and 2000.
Built-in T-joint, high-modulus graphite
Yonex lists the 20 Power as a hard hitter for the Professional player level, with the Built-In T-Joint and a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft. That is the build the catalog prints for the Carbonex 880, 25 and 21 on the same page; the 20 Power and 20 Tour differ from them in the rating line, 5/5/5 against 4/4/5. The catalog prints no weight, balance, flex word, string tension or country of manufacture. Nor does it say which end of its flex scale is stiff: the aluminum-framed Carbonex 9 and Carbonex 8 on the next spread are rated Flex 5 as well. Yonex does not explain the word Power in the name.
No player on record
No Yonex source names a player with the Carbonex 20 Power. “Professional” in the 1996 catalog is the player level Yonex gives the whole hard-hitter group, not a named user. Yonex’s Legendary Players page of 2013 quotes Taufik Hidayat saying that as a national junior he “used the Carbonex 20”; it names no Power or Tour version.
A blue-purple shaft and a gold-lettered cover
Yonex documents no colorways or editions. The catalog photo shows a dark frame with a thin gold line around the hoop, a blue-purple shaft and a black grip, and a black full cover with a gold YONEX logo and Carbonex 20 Power lettering near its foot. The Carbonex 20 Tour beside it has the same printed build and ratings but a black shaft and a cover crossed by a large blue X, and the Carbonex 20L, flagged LATEST, is the page’s third numbered 20. The plain Carbonex 20, which a Yonex history display dates to 1984, does not appear in the catalog, and the Carbonex 20 Muscle of 2002 is a later frame. Some sellers list a “Carbonex 20 PRO,” a name no Yonex source uses.
One catalog, then gone
The 20 Power’s documented time on sale is short. Yonex’s 1999 Asian catalog charts ten Carbonex models, from the 20 Long and 22 down to the 8000, with no 20 Power or 20 Tour, and the 2000 Asian catalog lists neither. No Yonex list from 1997 or 1998 is documented, so 1996 is the racquet’s last documented year rather than a known production end. No Yonex Japan page for it is known; Yonex Japan’s pages of 2001 show the violet Carbonex 20 and the black Carbonex 20 Long instead. The 1996 catalog’s pages carry no printed year, and the date comes from the collector who published the scans. A listing titled only “Carbonex 20” can be any of several frames. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Identity before authenticity
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 20 Power is documented. The practical risk is identity. The 20 Power and 20 Tour share the number, the build and identical catalog ratings, and the 20L and the plain Carbonex 20 share the number, so the printed model name is the main evidence. Yonex documents no country of manufacture or weight class for this model, so those details can come only from the frame’s own prints.
A one-catalog Carbonex
The Carbonex 20 Power’s record rests on a single Yonex catalog page. The number lived on in other frames: the Carbonex 20 Long in Yonex’s 1999 and 2000 Asian catalogs, the Carbonex 20 Muscle of 2002–05 and the plain Carbonex 20, still on Yonex Japan’s price list in 2024. How the 20 Power’s frame relates to any of them is undocumented.
Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog is the only Yonex specification for the Carbonex 20 Power: Built-In T-Joint, high-modulus graphite frame and shaft, Professional level, and Flex 5, Power 5, Control 5 on the catalog’s own scale. It gives no weight, balance, flex word or country of manufacture. Check that the frame or cover reads Carbonex 20 Power. In the catalog photo the shaft is blue-purple, the hoop dark with a thin gold line, and the black cover carries a gold YONEX logo; a cover crossed by a blue X belongs to the Carbonex 20 Tour, and “PRO” in a listing title has no Yonex source. On a frame about 30 years old, inspect the joint, the grommet holes and the hoop for cracks.
The Carbonex 20 Power suits a collector of 1990s Carbonex frames who values a documented catalog model over a player link. Look for the printed name, ideally with the original cover. Be careful of listings that attach “Power,” “Tour” or “PRO” to any old Carbonex 20, and of weight, balance or origin claims credited to Yonex, which documented none of them for this model.