For some reason I was compelled to pull my original Silver Sabre out of the closet and fire it up. It was the first Tesoro I bought a couple years ago just to introduce myself to Tesoros. I liked it, but only viewed it as a collector unit. I didn't want to break the thing so I ventured forth and found a nice El Dorado to use. That actually became one of my favorite machines that I still use from time to time. Anyway, the Silver Sabre has some crazy good discrimination that i guess i never really appreciated when i first used it. It appears to be set to ignore iron nails on the lowest setting. I put two rusty square nails on top of a quarter and it still picked up the quarter with no spits or sputs or scratchy tones. Knocks out a pull tab and still picks up a nickel. I have to say this thing is pretty amazing. I knew Tesoros were known for their disc. capabilities, but this old machine is really, really good. That's all I have to say about that. I got excited and thought I'd post about it. 
