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Having used all top of the line detectors, I picked up a fisher 1212x for next to nothing.I used it with my buddies in a farmfield hunt and gave me great results and even beat my buddy with the tesoro cortes [this time]. The 1212x just sounds off like my old 1265. The is only one thing I was dissapointed with. Deeper targets 7 or 8 inch sounded faint. The coil is hardwired and it has the old fisher with solid 8 inch coil. I was wondering if it would be possible to modify it so that other coils would fit OR.... replace the solid coil for a 8 inch spider. Would the last option give me a little more depth?
Eric, I'm sure the 1212x could be modified to accept other coils, but I doubt the spider coil would give you any more depth over the solid coil. I actually prefer the solid coils over the spider coils because the solid coils glide over clumps of grass, sticks, crop stubble, etc. much better than a spider coil, so it's less tiresome swinging the coil in overgrown areas. You didn't mention if you were using headphones with the 1212x or not, but a good set of high quality headphones like Sun Ray Pro Golds will make those weaker signals much easier to hear.
I guess you have a point here. I use headphones [Koss] but no top of the line phones. I could try that once. Maybe I am just more attracted to the spidercoil for it's ''cooler'' looks.
In fact I really start to like this cheap 1212x and the ease of operation, and still make very good finds! And it has the old fisher style quality that I miss in the newer stuff.
I agree that the spider coil has a cool factor that the solid coil lacks, but when that spider coils tangles in everything you swing it over the cool factor changes for me. I kept resisting buying a high quality set of headphones for years thinking they couldn't make that much difference....well, my friend, they make a huge difference in sound. I don't use them on my Fisher cz5 because it has audio boost on it, but for my Tesoro Silver
Guess I'll start to look around for a good pair of headphones. I owned many detectors and high end ones like explorers as well. But the best finds I made with the simple detectors. Like Tesoro Cutlass and Sidewinder, Fisher 1236x2 and now I really like this Fisher 1212x. Last sunday's hunt on a farmfield I saw the grin on my buddies face when showing the 1212x, but I smoked his cortes this time. So the 1212x is just a good machine with some limitations maybe but what the heck. I just love the quality feel it has like my old fishers 1265 and 1266. The last 1236x2 that I had certainly lacked the material quality although he performed just as well. But the controlbox housing of the oldies is made of better materials for sure.Roger, I am in Holland so IF ever I would sell the 1212x it would need to go a long way
Eric,
Good luck with the new detector and I hope some good headphones does the trick. I agree, Holland might be a bit far to ship. Take care and happy hunting.
Eric,I don't think another coil is going to give you better performance.There is a sensitivity pot inside you can increase that may help.The 1212-X for me was stable even after increasing the sensitivity pot to max.With the increase it air tested further out and hit harder in the coin garden.The 1225-X seems close to the 1236-X2 in sensitivity and both have a threshold sound when the sensitivity is maxed.Instead of looking for coils I would upgrade to a 1225-X or 1236-X2 for better performance.
