15 hours ago, MickD said:

Strength is the only characteristic the original poster asked about.  

Hmmm... I see that you are correct on that. I guess it morphed some.

1 hour ago, NOC 1 said:

Hmmm... I see that you are correct on that. I guess it morphed some.

Yes, they often do.  It's a good discussion.  I've never heard of some of the purported  characteristics of mag and graphite.  As I said, we didn't really define strength, and we've not defined "graphite."  There are many different types of reinforced plastic with specs that range all over the place.  All metals used in almost every product on earth are alloys of some sort because alloying allows tuning of all the different characteristics, like cost, corrosion resistance, density, all the different strengths, conductivity, etc etc etc.  Most on this forum think there is glass, graphite for reels (they understand different moduli for rods for the most part), steel, stainless steel, magnesium, titanium and aluminum.  And each is  defined by its common name.  Which is very far from the truth.   Since it is so complex, I don't even try to get really specific.  I just know what I like and what I don't.

 

My answer to the original post is that you can find fine reels made of both types of materials, magnesium and graphite.  But to me the most reliable, rigid,  reels are made of aluminum (alloy) or magnesium (alloy).  

On 6/28/2020 at 12:12 PM, BaitFinesse said:

Actually it is not.  Magnesium reels are notorious for being louder or "hollow" feeling than their aluminum counterparts.  This has been known and documented for over a decade by numerous examples of both Daiwa and Shimano reels by thousands of people. There are magnesium and aluminum versions for the same reels made by both Daiwa and Shimano.  Pixy/Alphas.  TD-Z/TD Zillion.  Steez TW/Steez A/19Morethan PE.  Aldebaran/Curado50/Scorpion1000XT.  

 

Also, by looking at pics of "Omoto Cerveza reel" they appear to be either an Abu Ambassadeur knockoff or some sort of spinning reel.  Nothing that would appear to be made from magnesium by the looks of it.  What do you have?  

It is magnesium. As with other magnesium reels, it is quiet and has a plastic like dampening property to it. I wouldn’t even know what a hollow feel is, other than it is light relative to other metals. For example, the MGXtreme2 I was fishing last weekend is light, has that natural dampening of magnesium and is super quiet. Some people equate heavy metal with quality even when they’re not talking music.