How Ancient Is This Racquet?

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  1. Oldhand

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    This is about the steel-shaft wooden-frame Yonex Queenheart B-1000.
    I can neither find the year it was made nor the year it was purchased.

    Does anyone here have any information on this model?
    As far as I know, this should be from the early 1970s :)

    The pictures follow...
     
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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 Full Racquet - Side 1 :)
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 Full Racquet - Side 2 :)
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 Cone :)
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 Neck - Side 1 :)
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 Neck - Side 2 :)
     

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    I've seen that before!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
     
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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000

    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 One-Piece Stringing :p
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 - Marketing Claims ;)
     

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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000 - More Marketing Claims ;)
     

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    Well, so have thousands of others :(
    That doesn't help at all.

    Do see post # 1
    Do you have the answers? :p
     
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    More!

    For those interested in more ancient stuff, check out the oldest threads
    Also, one gentleman has some pictures here of some of the old weapons :)
     
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    Yonex Queenheart B-1000: When was it made ?

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    Because the Yonex carbon-shaft wooden-frame racket was made around 1978, I would guess that this Yonex steel-shaft wooden-frame (Queenheart B-1000) racket should have been made around 1976.

    Allow me more time to investigate. :):):)
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    chris, it's great to see that you're back in your elements :p
     
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    I was born in 1976. But I think I have played with a B1000 when I was growing up. I think one of my uncles had that...

    Sorry, I am not good at Yonex equipment history.
     
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    This might go early on 60es..i have an article about yonex rackets history breaking,n it's stated that B2000 is made on 1962.Next,B5000,B6000 n B8000 on the 1969,B9100 on the 1973，B8100 on the 1974.No B1000.

    Anyway,like it said,customly made for championships play.U got ur self a very old one..
     
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    An OldRacket for an OldHand? :D
     
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    Yonex, as a brand name, started in 1973

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    Hi Smichz,

    The Yonex Queenheart B-1000 cannot be made in the 1960s because Minoru Yoneyama who founded the Yoneyama Company in 1946, started to produce his first Badminton racket in 1961 with his brand name Yoneyama. It was only in 1973 that his brand name was changed to Yonex.
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    I dont really know that,since i only quote what i read in the article.Probably the writer mistaken it...:rolleyes:
     
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