On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 12:15:12 -0400, DownTime
wrote:

Price is not the ultimate factor, but I'd rather spend a bit more for a
US made product, assuming of course the quality is worthy.

Well - as it happens, I am currently in possesion of some Ahab reels
from Fin-Nor (not US, but very high quality), two Ahab 12 and two Ahab
16 spinning reels along with a couple of their Megalite series and two
of their Santiago SA25 conventional reels. I was asked to do a review
for an upcoming product review series for a major magazine.

Email me @ first name (tom) last name (francis) at swsports (dot) org
and I'll let you in on the details.