New Coil For Ftp

[mh9162013]

With all this talk about FT, I'm thinking more and more that I better get another F-Pulse while I still can...

[phrunt]

I really like First Texas, they make good quality detectors.  The only problem is they're stuck in the mid 2000's, or even the mid 90's for their best product, the GB2, not much has changed with them in a long time.

They reached their peak in the mid 2000's I guess and it's all downhill from there.  Now they just continue to sell old stock, well I should say try to sell old stock.   I still have my fingers crossed they'll do something, someday.  I doubt they'll go bust as they appear to supply big box stores in the USA entry level kids machines in large numbers and until one of the other brands decides that's the market they want to seriously get into and put some effort into taking that market from them then they're pretty safe.

I am just confused by this coil, why bother getting a few of their promo people and youtube guys to go out and promote it then a few months later still nothing.... the ideal time to launch it was while it was being promoted, and now that's all died off and the focus of everyone will be on these new multi freaker machines by other brands and a new coil for an old machine is now far less exciting than it was then, better putting the coin towards a new machine than a new coil for an old machine.

[Geotech]

Wish I could say what's going on but I have no idea. I'm as much in the dark as everyone else.

[phrunt]

Well, I discovered a photo of the First Texas Factory, and it appears the lights aren't even on, but certainly nobody is home, looks abandoned, not even a car in the car park.    ?

The coils still not out, I asked the guy that did the test videos of it on Youtube in action and he thought it was already for sale, I said nope, nowhere to be found, he seemed rather surprised it never made it to market and just assumed it did.  Looks like he spent all that time doing his marketing videos for nothing.

The other thing I recall it was discussed they were making a lighter version of the 15" monstrosity of a coil, this was quite a while ago now and I've heard nothing more and retailers are still selling the solid concrete 15" coil so it never made it to market either.

[Steve Herschbach]

It’s getting a little weird for Fisher fans. All kinds of news and activity from the other major players, and crickets at First Texas. Hopefully something changes for the positive in 2022, because right now it’s easy to forget they even exist.

[Jeff McClendon]

I used to be a Fisher/Teknetics fan, owned several of their detectors and made myself use them, even when I knew I had better detectors with more features hanging on the wall. Support USA businesses and all of the other related homeboy sentiments. I have thought about taking a tour of their facilities several times since I drive across Texas often. Maybe after Covid that will still be possible.

Other than my two Teknetics Tek Point pinpointers, I don't own or use any FTP products currently and unless something amazing happens I won't own any of their detectors in the future. My Deus 1 Lite with its selectable frequencies detects just as well and my Equinox.........not even close in the areas I detect.

I wish I had something good to say........Maybe the coil will be released soon. I don't have a detector to use it on though.

I do really like their pulse induction pinpointers and use them daily!!!!

[GB_Amateur]

11 hours ago, phrunt said:

Well, I discovered a photo of the First Texas Factory, and it appears the lights aren't even on, but certainly nobody is home, looks abandoned, not even a car in the car park.

Any idea what day (and time) the photo was taken?  A Sunday or holiday (we just had a big one...) would explain what's shown.

[phrunt]

Yes the photo was more for the funny side of it, it's a genuine photo but it was probably when they were closed or something.

I really hope they'll come back from the brink, at the moment it's not looking good but who knows, perhaps they're satisfied making low end gear for the big box stores, for all we know they could be the ones laughing as they're making a packet selling that type of detector and don't care about competing with the manufacturers making the high end equipment.  They could go on for years yet doing that using the same technology.

I was hoping this coil was going to come out though, I had plans to get one to see if it does anything constructive for my T2's, I have two of them sitting there that never get any use anymore but I really like the design and they're so comfortable to swing, they also just feel powerful.  They go as deep as any other detector I've got in the VLF's, but their ID's are terrible on deeper targets.  If I use a First Texas detector now it's my Gold Bug Pro's, I like their more stable ID's.  I think they've missed the boat on these new coils though, so much activity from other manufacturers now with new products the heat has worn off them already. 

If they want something to make, make a Gold Bug Pointer! A dedicated prospecting pointer with the ability to find tiny gold in bedrock.  I'd be on the pre-order list to buy two.

[Steve Herschbach]

I'd not make anything of the photo. Sometimes if you take a picture like that, you do it with no cars and other stuff around on purpose.

I'd was a huge Fisher fan for a very long time, all the way from original analog 1280X, Gold Bug, and CZ-5 days, to F75 and F19. But then things just stopped. New detectors were just old ones rejiggered ,and there has been nothing genuinely new on the top end for over a decade. The F-Pulse is for me, just like Jeff, the only FT product I still own and use constantly.

I'm still rooting for them, but the Impulse AQ saga has not left me with a warm fuzzy - just the opposite. The way the White's MX Sport went down told me there were problems at White's, and the Impulse AQ situation feels all too similar.