Saw it on TW, looks promising but...EXPENSIVE. More than the Curado BFS. Not sure the frame material, I rather guess it's a composite or graphite something or other. It's not the shallow spool skipping/pitching baitcast that came out last year. It also has centrifugal braking.

I'd rather spend a few more dollars and get an Aldeberan BFS, which has been tried and true top end BFS reel.

Saw this on a few other fishing forums/websites as well. The reel looks promising, but the price point seems way out of line considering it is Lew's initial BFS reel. This puts their reel in direct competition with several high end Shimano and /Daiwa reels which have quite a following. I own several Lew's baitcasters and they have all performed very well, but Lews has very little experience or recognition in the BFS market. They probably should have targeted the $150-$200 range as a starting point. I may eventually end up buying one; but not at full retail price.

Will be interested to see how it performs, never a bad thing to have more competition. The pricetag is steep, hopefully they dont westernize it to much with the 11 ballbearings and thank God they didn't dump the money in winn grip knobs and (hopefully) put the money into the actual internal design, spool  breaking mechanism, and spool bearings. I have high hopes because in the description a pro didnt design it, usually that's almost always good thing for what i want. I really hope more product ideas from Japan migrate their way here, maybe we will get igfa line standards and gou that promote fair quality products... 

 

(Maybe I'm dreaming way to much)

its a shallow spool custom lite with tanso frame. its a super high tech graphite.my custom lites outcast my brother in laws alderbaren. definately will buy one when i can.I don't think the price is way out of line at all.