Carbonex 8600 Ti
Model CAB-8600TI
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Carbonex 8600 Ti: titanium mesh in a Taiwan-made graphite Carbonex, new in 2007
Titanium mesh below the Japan-made Carbonex
The Carbonex 8600 Ti was a lower-priced graphite Carbonex that Yonex’s 2007 export catalog marked NEW. Its one distinguishing material, in Yonex’s own spec lines, was titanium mesh in a graphite frame on a graphite shaft. On the same catalog page it followed the Carbonex 30 Muscle and Carbonex 21, both made in Japan; the 8600 Ti was made in Taiwan.
What Yonex printed
Yonex gives no launch date; 2007 is the year of the catalog that tagged it new. The 2007 catalog lists it as Medium flex, frame of graphite and titanium mesh, graphite shaft, 3U (85.0–89.9 g) with a G4 grip, made in Taiwan, in black and gold. Yonex’s international Carbonex list, which showed it from February 2008, gives the same flex and materials with a built-in T-joint and titanium mesh, and in 2008 offered both 3U (G4, G5) and 2U (G3–G5). From March 2009 the list shows 3U only, in G3–G5. Yonex printed no balance and no level wording for it.
No player on record
No Yonex catalog, list page or staff page connects a player to the Carbonex 8600 Ti. It was a budget graphite racquet below the Japan-made Carbonex models of its years, not a model Yonex built a campaign around.
Two colorways, and a renamed twin
The 2007 catalog shows the frame in black and gold; a Yonex export spec chart of the same period lists it in navy blue. In Yonex’s 2011 digital catalog the same printed specification (Medium, graphite frame with titanium mesh, graphite shaft, 3U, made in Taiwan) appears under a new name and item code, the Carbonex 8000 Ti (CAB8000Ti), in black and red; it has its own page. The Carbonex-8600 of Yonex’s 2000 Asian catalog is an earlier graphite model with its own specification, and Yonex China’s model picker names a CAB-8400TI beside this CAB-8600TI.
Two years on the export list
The 8600 Ti was an export model. Yonex’s international site listed it from February 2008 to March 2010, beside the Carbonex 8000 Light, the aluminum-framed Carbonex 8 and the 7000 DF and 6000 DF; the list as refreshed in early April 2010 no longer showed it, and the Carbonex 35 had been added. Yonex China’s model picker also names it. No Yonex Japan or Yonex USA listing of it is known. No verified sales are recorded yet.
A question of numbers
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 8600 Ti is documented. The practical risk is identity: the plain Carbonex-8600 of 2000, the 8000 Ti of 2011, and listings that call it the “8600 Titanium,” a name Yonex did not use.
A documented export budget frame
For a collector the 8600 Ti is a small, well-documented piece of Yonex’s late-2000s export Carbonex line: one catalog year, about two years on the international list, and a 2011 model that carried the same printed specification as its 2009–2010 listing under a new number. Little else about it is on record.
Yonex listed the Carbonex 8600 Ti as Medium flex, with a frame of graphite and titanium mesh, a graphite shaft and a built-in T-joint, made in Taiwan. The 2007 catalog gives 3U (85.0–89.9 g) with a G4 grip in black and gold; Yonex’s international list also offered 2U in 2008, and later 3U in G3–G5. Read the model name on the frame: “8600 Ti” separates it from the plain Carbonex-8600 of 2000 and from the black-and-red Carbonex 8000 Ti of 2011.
The 8600 Ti is an export budget graphite racquet of 2007–2010, so a frame today is at least about fifteen years old. Check the head, the T-joint and the grommet holes for cracks, and read the printed model name and weight class rather than a listing title. Yonex documented no balance for it.