Tesoro metal detector is back in business!!! Unboxing of a new Tesoro metal detector made in Asia

[GeoMax]

Tesoro is back in business...

Unboxing of a new Tesoro Metal detector. They are very creative guys with their probably limited resources in Myanmar (Asia). Thumbs up for the guys...

Here the link to their Facebook Website with many videos about the new Tesoro and the manufacturing:
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063883010657

[GeoMax]

The price for one New Tesoro is "hot" only about 70 Euro!!!

[GeoMax]

One of the videos is quite impressive (you need to scroll down the page). A "Red Tesoro" with probably a DD Coil detecting a very deep buried target.
Looks much deeper than detecting with an original Tesoro.

[ivconic]

I recognize the PCB, it's my draw from around 2006-2008.
It has been slightly modified, in a few small details.
Where I put the wire jumpers; now there is the top layer connection.

[GeoMax]

Hahaha Ivonic,

You can see that people still use your TESORO artwork until today. Even after, so long time…
It is the same with my Barracuda schematic, which I re-drew in 2002. This one is still “floating”
around in the Internet and people use it and/or refer to it.

Last time I saw a posting about the Barracuda Detector, I cannot remember where it was, saying
that the uploaded Barracuda schematic was the best found in the Internet. I was curious and
downloaded the schematic.
When I open the schematic file, I was shocked to see my own old re-drawn Barracuda schematic
from 21 Nov 2002. It makes me also happy to see that people still like the old drawing.

Geomax

[ivconic]

The Geotech Forum is a great thing.
Because "millions" around the world can see the works there and use some of it for their own needs.
From time to time I am very pleasantly surprised when I see that some of my works are still being used somewhere in the world,
and that people are very happy with them.
Although I'm sure 99.99% of them have no idea who drew it and when.
TGSL is probably the most copied DIY detector of all time. Side by side with SMW.
And the story of how TGSL came to be is interesting.
In August 2004, I went to Malta to live and work for a certain period of time.
Just before that I made my first DIY Tesoro Golden Sabre and went with it on a couple of sites.
I have found it to be a very good detector for small silver coins.
But I've also noticed that the Notch function is counterproductive if it's not set very precisely.
I knew in advance that I would have a lot of free time in Malta.
So I printed out the schematic on hard copy and put it with the other papers and took it with me.
And indeed, one very rainy day I was sitting in my apartment and I was very bored.
And rummaging through the papers I accidentally saw a schematic.
I took a blank sheet of paper and manually started to draw the same schematic but without the part related to Notch.
And when I finished; I was sure it would work well. I was anxious to get back home as soon as possible and make it.
There was a Maplin Electronics parts store down in Malta.
I could have made that detector in Malta.
But I wasn't sure about the law and I didn't want to risk problems with the authorities (these were other times).
I returned home in March 2005, and I followed the Geotech forum from before, but not as a registered member.
When I made the first TGSL; I decided to register with Geotech; so I can publish that paper.
In the meantime, someone else already started Golden Sabre topic, if I remember correctly it was Kurtie.
So I just joined that topic and continued to post that work and subsequent revisions.
I never dreamed that the response would be so great over the years!
Something similar later happened with SMW. SMW topic is not as gigantic as TGS... but SMW was copied and made in "millions of copies",
which I later saw and learned indirectly.
If I had taken those things more seriously than I did; that I started a small "niche" production of those detectors then; I would be a very rich man today!
In the first rush, I would have sold thousands... In those years, it was a very favorable time for such detectors.
The Chinese still didn't even know what a detector was, and the Americans and others from the West were selling their detectors at ridiculous prices,
and not all of them had the performance that justified those prices.
So at that time I was not "clairvoyant" enough to understand the chance and significance of the time in which it was happening.
It's not my first time.
Many times in my life I was not able to understand and predict the importance of some opportunities that I had or that were offered to me.
Today I only have to remember it. I do not regret, because there is no benefit from regret.
I am even very glad when I see that somewhere far away from me in the world, someone is doing these works still today.
If a man is lucky; even TGSL is enough good to find wealth with it.

[Mark-VA]

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