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Those Shimano reels then were made in Japan. Today they’re mostly made elsewhere. The JDM stuff really is better and you can find on eBay. The Indonesia/Thailand/China stuff is hit and miss in terms of living up to the JDM reels.
I could be biased, but the Japanese have an ethos that seeps through their work into the product they put their hands on, or at least oversee the manufacturing of. There could be information I’m missing, but how does an Curado E-series reel hold up 15 years later of saltwater use?
