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Well I was looking around and I guess 1266x's are now worth their weight in gold!! Their a great machine don't get me wrong but not worth what people are trying to sell them for, some are asking 500-800 for them really?? I figure 300-350 would be the most their worth considering their age. I just don't see it when you can pick up a 1270 for 300-400 in like new shape. I wanted one but not that bad!! I guess I will use my Tejon and old trusty 1265 this year in the relic woods!
I know I said this before, the 1266x is a good feeling machine but they are not worth the big bucks. The 1270 is not as comfortable to swing but I think it will do everything the 1266x will do and then some. I know for sure that the 1266x will lose depth with higher disc settings and the 1270 does not.
I dunno you guys. I have had 1260's, 1265's, 1266's, and 1270's, used a 1280-X plenty of times, and owned a couple of CZ's (love them too). I honestly think they hit a sweet spot with the early 1266's (without disparaging any of the other machines). I look at it like this, I don't remember precisely how much a 1260 was in 1983, but I wanted one like no one's business, but as a kid I could only afford a 1220-X (another completely underrated, but beginner machine with far inferior ergonomics). I would ballpark a 1260-X was in $350 - $400 brand new. The 1266-X was close to $450 in 1986 dollars if I remember correctly. That would be the equivalent of the 1270-X selling at over $1,000 brand new today. For the sake of conversation let's say it cost Fisher $100 in 1986 to make a 1266-X and $125 for them to make a 1270-X today. You would be getting $212 worth of Fisher cost in parts/labor in the 1266-X in today's dollars and in my opinion all electronics were built better earlier in history.
I guess the best analogy would be to guitars or guitar amps due to the innards. In 1983 you probably could have picked up a 1956 - 1960 Gibson Les Paul for $300 - $500. You could have bought a brand new 1983 Les Paul for $175 - $250. You can't touch a 1956 - 1960 Les Paul for less than the price of a car these days. Everybody realized that some special voodoo happened in the early days and there are only so many of them in existence. The amplifiers have a parallel, but markedly lower curve. A $50 amp from the 1950's made by Gibson or Fender will set you back a couple to many thousand dollars now. Both companies still make all the same amps, the new ones just don't have the same innards. At the end of the day, Gibson and Fender still make GREAT equipment today, but whatever was so right (the woods available, the way the boards were soldered, the tubes, hand-wound pickups) back then just hasn't been able to be replicated.
Do I think a 1266-X will ever cost over $1,000? Not likely, but possible. It depends on how many shake out of the baby boomers closets and garages over the next few years. In my opinion, if you have a 1266-X for land hunting and the right coils (3.5" or 4", 8", 11") you really don't ever need another detector.
The new economic mentality (not applying this to Fisher - I think they make better machines than everybody else for MY purposes) is to produce everything with the cheapest materials, cheapest labor, etc. have the machines break, and buy a new machine much earlier than the old school cycle. Testament to Fisher that so many 1260's, 1265's and 1266's are still running. My three year old iPod doesn't run as well as my 30 year old Fishers.
I owned a 1266 for about 10 years. A very good detector, but nothing special. Preset gb and all. The high price is due to the nostalgia factor of a decades old detector out of production. I have to laugh at some of the hype. It is supply and demand...but Pt Barnun got it right.
I did regret selling mine years ago. But the 1236x2 can be had for a fraction of the 66 price and is decent in its own right. The 1270 is hands down a better detector, newer and in some cases cheaper.
The average price for the last four 1236-X2's selling on the auction site was $217.51.
The average price for the last five 1266-X's selling on the auction site was $249.1
I had to throw out one 1266-X price because it came with 4 coils. I left one 1266 in that seemed to go a bit high, but came with a few goodies.
I suppose to each their own, but I can tell you what is underneath a 1266-X coil with at least 80% accuracy. If I had a friend with an eTrac and we were going to one of my spots I might be somewhat outmatched, but not enough that it would bother me. Besides, the machine is only half of the equation.
The 1220 was a solid machine. The 1236 is an excellent. The ability to change the frequency is interesting to me, but I have never used one, so I can't speak to it. I like the 1266 and 1270 and their forebears for the Dual Disc in particular, but also my familiarity with them.
Well, I have a early version 1266 (dual circuit boards) and I guess I got it for a really good price, FREE! my neighbor who don't metal detect came carrying it over one day and just gave it to me, then on top of that I got a like new 5" coil for FREE! (birthday gift from big brother)
I'm thinking that a good place to watch for one of these would be local Pawn Shops! I doubt they would give much over $50.00 for one coming in, so unclaimed they should be willing to let it go for $100.00
If I remember correctly my 1266 cost 479.00 brand new in 1998 when I bought my last one.
Fisher got it right with all of the 1200 series detectors. They were chatty in iron but delivered the goods.
My first real detector was a 1220x, ( a POS Bounty Hunter 550D don't count) My first trip out hunting with the 1220x got me
2 walking liberty half dollars, a standing liberty quarter, and a mercury dime at my local football field. I was a fan for life after that day.
I wouldn't feel outgunned at all if I only had a 1266 for my main detector. It was the most comfortable detector I ever owned, it felt like an extension of my arm.
I wouldn't pay 7 or 8 hundred dollars for a clean 1266, but would spend 3 to 4 hundred in a heartbeat for a minty one.........HH
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I guess the best analogy would be to guitars or guitar amps due to the innards. In 1983 you probably could have picked up a 1956 - 1960 Gibson Les Paul for $300 - $500. You could have bought a brand new 1983 Les Paul for $175 - $250. You can't touch a 1956 - 1960 Les Paul for less than the price of a car these days. Everybody realized that some special voodoo happened in the early days and there are only so many of them in existence. The amplifiers have a parallel, but markedly lower curve. A $50 amp from the 1950's made by Gibson or Fender will set you back a couple to many thousand dollars now. Both companies still make all the same amps, the new ones just don't have the same innards. At the end of the day, Gibson and Fender still make GREAT equipment today, but whatever was so right (the woods available, the way the boards were soldered, the tubes, hand-wound pickups) back then just hasn't been able to be replicated.
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Older Gibsons were good but the main buyers of them pushing the price sky-high are not amateurs/hobbyists but instead professional musicians that do not have to worry about the cost of a guitar but are instead interested in that certain sound and feel of play that can
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Older Gibsons were good but the main buyers of them pushing the price sky-high are not amateurs/hobbyists but instead professional musicians that do not have to worry about the cost of a guitar but are instead interested in that certain sound and feel of play that can
well, I can consider my self lucky because I have two mint 1266x's with some rare coils for them like a NEW water coil for it and a NEW 5x10" coil,try finding themNot only that but have a one in a Million NEW,OLD STOCK CZ-5 ,NEVER USED MADE IN LOS BANOS ,WITH A LIFE TIME WARRANTY AND VHS VIDEO AND MANUALBELIEVE ME IT TOOK SOMETIME TO FIND THIS TREASURES
Not only that but have a one in a Million NEW,OLD STOCK CZ-5 ,NEVER USED MADE IN LOS BANOS ,WITH A LIFE TIME WARRANTY AND VHS VIDEO AND MANUAL
BELIEVE ME IT TOOK SOMETIME TO FIND THIS TREASURES