Carbonex 880
Model CAB-880
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Carbonex 880: a “Latest” Professional hard hitter from Yonex’s 1996 catalog
First on the spread, flagged “Latest”
The Carbonex 880 is known from a single Yonex source. Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog prints it first on the Carbonex Series’ High Performance spread, ahead of the Carbonex 25, 20L, 21, 20 Power and 20 Tour, and marks it “Latest,” a flag it shares only with the 20L; the 20 Power beside them is marked “New.” The catalog does not explain how the two flags differ and gives no launch date, so 1996 is the year the 880 is first documented rather than a confirmed launch year. No later Yonex listing of it is documented.
Built-in T-joint and high-modulus graphite
The catalog gives the 880 Yonex’s Built-In T-Joint, a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft, and the Professional player level, under the “Hard Hitter” label it prints beside every model on the spread. Its ratings, on the catalog’s own scale, are 4 for flex, 4 for power and 5 for control: the same line, with the same materials and player level, that the spread prints for the Carbonex 25 and the Carbonex 21. The 20 Power and 20 Tour are rated 5 for all three. The spread prints no weight, balance, flex word, item code or country of manufacture, and no year appears on the catalog’s pages; the 1996 date comes from the collector who scanned it.
No player on record
No player is documented using the Carbonex 880. “Professional” in the 1996 catalog is a player-level label shared by the whole hard-hitter group, not a named user, and the spread carries no player photograph.
One photograph, no named colorways
Yonex documents no editions or named colorways of the 880. The catalog photograph shows a dark frame, a red-toned lower shaft, a black grip and a black full-length cover with a gold Yonex logo and small gold lettering. Its spread-mates are separate models under their own names: the Carbonex 25 and 21 share its printed ratings, the 20L (also flagged “Latest”) is shown without a rating block, and the 20 Power and 20 Tour are rated higher for flex and power. Despite the digits, it has no documented link to the Carbonex 8000, 8200 and 8300, beginner racquets marked new on a later page of the same catalog; each has its own page.
One catalog, no later listing
The 880’s documented life is one catalog year. The 1996 spreads print no prices, so no Yonex list price is known. Yonex’s 1999 spec chart, whose Carbonex columns run from the 20 Long to the 8000, does not include it, and neither do the Carbonex pages of the 2000 Asian catalog, led by the new Carbonex 23. Yonex Japan’s old-model lists name no Carbonex 880, and whether it was ever sold in Japan is undocumented. No verified sales are recorded yet.
Reading the name
No counterfeit of the Carbonex 880 is documented. The practical risk is identity: the catalog gives the 880, the Carbonex 25 and the Carbonex 21 the same materials and the same ratings, so on a worn frame the printed model name is the only documented way to tell them apart. A cover is no guide to the frame inside it.
A name with one page
The Carbonex 880 is a footnote in the Carbonex line: a Yonex name with one catalog appearance and a “Latest” flag. Its launch year, price, weights and country of manufacture are undocumented. The two spread-mates that share its ratings had far longer documented lives, the Carbonex 21 from 1988 to 2020 and the Carbonex 25 from 1996 to 2013.
Yonex’s 1996 Asian catalog is the only Yonex specification for the Carbonex 880: a built-in T-joint and a high-modulus graphite frame and shaft, shown with a dark frame, a red-toned lower shaft and a black cover with a gold Yonex logo. It gives no weight, balance, flex word, item code or country of manufacture, so a seller’s claims on those points are not Yonex’s. Read the model name printed on the shaft: the Carbonex 25 and 21 carry the same catalog materials and ratings. On a frame about 30 years old, check the throat, the grommets and the hoop for cracks.
The Carbonex 880 suits collectors assembling Yonex’s mid-1990s Carbonex line more than players. With one catalog as its only Yonex record, a listing’s claims about its year, weight or origin need their own evidence, and the shaft print should name the 880 itself, not a sibling with the same catalog ratings. A matching cover helps complete a set but proves nothing about the frame.