Got a Vintage 1980's Tesoro Golden Sabre like mine

[goldentruth]

I bought on Ebay a Vintage 1980's Tesoro Golden Sabre VLF.
Mine works great and an excellent coin machine and have found many artifacts.
Anybody got one out there?

[Mzjavert]

No mine's a '90s Sidewinder and it's also one sweet machine. I'm guessing you'll be singing the praises of your machine all over the board.

[rws51]

I bought a new Golden Sabre back in the mid 80's and it was a nice detector. It found alot of coins and a few rings for me. Wish I had kept it but I didn't.

[windage]

Still got my Royal Sabre in the van as a back up to the Etrac. Have the 4" and the 11" coils too. Paid 317.95 on 11/24/1986, still got the reciept in my detectors file...love it and pull it out occasionally to keep sharp on the "old-school" techniques.

[U.K. Brian]

I had a Gold Sabre almost as soon as they came out. Two guys had just arrived back from the U.S. singing its praises ie notch out ringpulls and it sounded as though there was no price to pay for that ability. Took about five minutes to find out differently.

The Royal Sabre soon followed and was much deeper on my soil, so the Gold went. Really felt affection for the Royal but eventally sold it on and the guy who bought it was still using it when I last saw him two years back. No repairs in all these years and it must have paid for itself hundreds of times over.

[GreenMeanie]

I had one awhile back and found many treasures with it.
I am tempted some day to head back to a tesero machine. I am just waiting on a multi tone machine like the minelab SOV series from them.

[Bum Luck]

I still have one, and my kid likes to use it. It's fairly simple, and what I really like about it is that when you have a target, you can gradually turn the discrimination up until it 'falls out', and then you know what you have. It saves digging a LOT of pop tabs.

My deepest coin was a Merc dime at about 11", just a whisper.

Oh, yeah, service for life as well.

[U.K. Brian]

Funny that Tesoro always seemed more appreciated in Europe than the U.S. and we had to pay way more for them and didn't get the lifetime warranty.

[Bum Luck]

Last time I sent mine in, it was no cost. Did they change that?

I gotta say that the tech guy was nice enough to send along a couple of TH articles. I can't say enough about Tesoro as a company. I think they're great.