The Epix (now Epixor's) are very smooth and great looking reels . I have two of them and no longer use them because both spools came apart .

They look like one piece spools but if you take the drag knob off you will see four small screws that hold the top half of the spool on . This is where both of my spools broke . The screws apparently stripped out and will no longer hold the spools together.

This forced me to get new Diawa's and the one other great thing about them is that they have a larger diameter spool so they can cast much further than the other reels of the same size .