Carbonex 25
Model CAB-25
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Carbonex 25: a 1990s Professional hard hitter sold new in the US until 2013
Two chapters, fourteen years apart
The Carbonex 25 has two documented chapters. A Yonex Asian catalog dated to 1996 lists it among the Carbonex Series’ Professional hard hitters, without the New or Latest flag it gives newer models on the same page, so it was already on sale. No later Yonex listing of it is documented. In March 2010 a US retailer began selling a Carbonex 25 as a 2010 model made in Japan, and the shop still listed it new in April 2013. Whether that stock was a fresh production run or older frames is undocumented.
Built-in T-joint and high-modulus graphite
The 1996 catalog’s High Performance spread places the Carbonex 25 in its hard-hitter group with the Carbonex 880, 20L, 21, 20 Power and 20 Tour. Yonex gives it the Built-In T-Joint, a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft, the Professional player level, and ratings of 4 for flex, 4 for power and 5 for control on the catalog’s own scale, the same line it prints for the Carbonex 21. The catalog prints no weight, balance, flex word or country of manufacture. Retail copy credits the whole Carbonex series with a box-shaped frame section; Yonex’s entry for the 25 does not mention one. The built-in T-joint and the longer history of the Carbonex name are told in the Carbonex 21 article.
No player on record
No professional is documented using the Carbonex 25. “Professional” in the 1996 catalog is a player-level label, which Yonex gives every model in the hard-hitter group, not a named user.
One name, several labels
Yonex documents no editions or colorways of the Carbonex 25. The 1996 catalog shows a black frame with gold trim at the throat and a black full cover lettered in gold. The US retailer titled its 2010 listing “Carbonex 25 (Cab-25) 2010,” a shop label rather than a Yonex model name, and by 2013 the year had gone from the title and product code. Resale listings also offer a “Carbonex 25 SP”; no Yonex catalog or Yonex site documents an SP version of the 25. The name is also older than the badminton frame: Yonex’s corporate history records soft-tennis Carbonex 25 and 26 racquets in 1978.
Between Asia and one US shop
No verified sales of the Carbonex 25 are recorded yet. Its trail between the two chapters is thin. Yonex’s 2007 export catalog lists the Carbonex 30 Muscle, 21 and 8600Ti, and Yonex China’s model list of January 2009 has no CAB-25, while a Chinese website listing Yonex models filed it under old products in July 2007. The US retailer’s Carbonex page lacked it in May 2008 and February 2009 and carried it by March 2010. Its copy said Yonex Japan had “recently made the Carbonex 25 for the United States market,” exclusively for that shop, and added: “As before, the Carbonex 25 has excellent power and control.” No Yonex source confirms a new run or the exclusivity; Yonex USA’s own Carbonex page of October 2013 listed the 21, 35 and 50.
Checking the name
No counterfeit report specific to the Carbonex 25 is documented. The likelier errors are of identity. The soft-tennis Carbonex 25 of 1978 shares the name, and the Carbonex 21, with the same catalog ratings and materials, was still a Yonex export model in 2007, so a worn print deserves a close read. Nothing published separates a 1990s Carbonex 25 from one sold new in 2010–2013.
A long name, a short record
The documented span, 1996 to 2013, says more about how long the name stayed on sale than about the racquet’s own history, and when production ended is undocumented. Other Carbonex hard hitters had similarly long lives: Yonex Japan still listed the Carbonex 20 in 2023, and Yonex USA the Carbonex 21 into 2020 (see CAB-20 and CAB-21). The Carbonex 35 of 2009 shows where the line went next.
Yonex’s 1996 catalog is the only Yonex specification for the Carbonex 25: a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft and the built-in T-joint, with a black frame and gold trim at the throat in the catalog photo. It gives no weight, balance, flex word or country of manufacture. The US retailer that sold it new in 2010–2013 listed it as stiff, 2U and made in Japan, as did a Chinese website listing Yonex models in 2007; treat those as retail descriptions, not Yonex’s. Read the printed model number, confirm the racquet is a badminton frame and not the 1978 soft-tennis Carbonex 25, and treat an SP suffix as unexplained by Yonex. On a frame that may be about 30 years old, check the joint, the grommets and the hoop for cracks.
The Carbonex 25 is a piece for Carbonex completists, documented in two places: a 1996 Yonex catalog and a US retailer’s pages of 2010–2013. Nothing published tells a frame of the 1990s from one sold new in 2010, so a seller’s claim about which period a racquet comes from needs evidence, such as dated purchase records. Confirm the printed name and the sport first.