Blisstool LTC64X v3
Price: $1000
Avg. Score: 
3
Based on 6 reviews
3Based on 6 reviews
Avg. Durability:
3.80
Avg. Ease of use:
2.60
Blisstool 2020
August 16, 2020
With the recently acquired Bliss V5 using the 7x9 coil. Took it out to my
favorite soccer field with a running track this morning. Got wet a bit.
Knew they had a sprinkler system, never knew it actually worked. Found out
it does. Every 20 minutes another three start up and the previous three
shut down. They circle the field twice.
So I set the Bliss up like my bench test. Did a manual ground balance, so easy took a minute, piece of cake. Guess a 10 turn GB pot won't be needed after all. Took all of about 40 minutes to get used to it. Stable, smooth....Have to say it felt like I used this detector for a long time. Just felt like all the beep and digs I have used wrapped up into one. Just a heck of a lot deeper!!! For the most part only had to adjust threshold a bit now and then, damp and dry dirt. And at one point had some EMI, not bad but, it was there. All I did was adjust the frequency up a bit and drop the Threshold a tiny bit. I was ready to dig a lot of trash and figuring my knee was going to pay for it later.
Really surprised that I found very little trash, it was there, could hear. It was easy to tell the canslaw, iron, nails from coins just listening to the duration and sharpness of the target signal. Easy to size a target. Setting the Disc level and Disc depth at the particular setting and using the three position disc toggles, really worked great. Hunt in Number 3, if I get a a breakup signal, will check in Number 2, if it double blips or breaks up, really don't have to dig it. Will now dig if its a very tight signal break up, found it could be a very deep Can. clad coin. I do switch to Number 2 to take another look at the target, if the signal is good in Number 3 and good in Number 2, from what was dug today, its a good target. Appears that the disc target is kind of a notching, each Number has a different target acceptance width to it. In a weird way, kind of reminds me how I used the DeepTech Vista X with the two disc controls, standard and alternate in conjunction with adjustable two tone disc control. Even thou the Blisstool V5 is a single tone detector, it does give a lot of target information. Pinpointing was a little iffy at first, using the Makro PulseDiver Pinpointer was needed to zoom in on the target. Later in the hunt, was able to pinpoint with the coil almost dead center on top of the target. The PulseDive pinpointer made locating the target even easier. Couple notes about the Bliss and the pinpointer, had to keep the coil far away from it. It would cause EMI. Did not make an attempt to change the PD frequency as I was too busy having fun. Second note, the headphones I was using pretty well muffled the audio from the PD. So it was switched to vibrate mode, found I really like that mode. Hunted for about 4.5 hours this morning. the sun was out, no wind, and temps approaching high 80's F degrees. Had to stop at that point. Dug only 3 pieces of foil, foil rejection was excellent, was thinking to myself, this was just like my Mirage Pi..... Dug some very deep 7" pull tabs and most of the coins came from the 7-8" depth. This is with the Gain set at minimum. Think only three coins came from depths less than 7" to about 4". The Bliss V5 from what I saw today is an excellent Canadian clad machine. Real happy with its performance, feel and balance. Thought about acquiring another Tesoro or possibly some deeper beep and dig, no longer looking.
Think the Bliss covers about all my needs and then some as a beeper. Definitely a keeper. And having the 11" and 15" coils and lots more Gain if needed, should make for a great all around relic detector. Didn't find any $1 and $2 coins today, think I already found them all using previous detectors, wasn't expecting to find any. The Blisstool is now one of those obscure machines you rarely see or hear about these days, too bad so many that bought one sold them pretty early on. They couldn't wrap their head around how the controls function and work. Then there are those that were able to, found they were excellent detectors with lots of potential and had excellent success with them. Looking forward to using the V5 much more. By the way it came with 3 coils, 7x9, 11" and a huge 15" monster. ----------------------------------- Just keep finding clad. Charged up the Blisstool V5 last night for a morning hunt before the heat set in with a blazing hot sun starts baking me. Since most areas are pretty dry, not wanting to ruin any grass areas. Went back to a well hit spot where the ground would just damp enough to make for some easy digging and the ground would not dry out. The place is a good choice because the sprinkler system keeps the grass nice and green. This morning. True to form, the sprinklers came on, the grass at my spot was still wet. The rising sun and warming heat soon dried the grass. Made for a clean hunt. Ground balanced the V5 to perfection. Ran smooth with a nice stable threshold all morning. Used the 7x9 search coil again, which is just going to stay on this detector. Since I haven't used the V5 in several weeks, as I was testing out the new Simplex coils, it did take about 1 hour to get back in the swing of things. So a lot of trash was dug, just to get a feel of the audio responses between trash and good trash ( Canadian clad coins). Made for some good education today. There are a couple things I can say about the V5, it loves deeper Canadian clad coins. Pretty much already cleaned the place of surface to 5" deep coins. Finding there sure is a lot more at the 6-8" range than I thought. The V5 just sees them loud and clear, quite surprised how many are dug at the 7" range. Noted all those pesky dimes came from that depth. The only coin that came from a shallow depth of 4" was the Toonie. It sounded like a large surface target. Have to remember that for next time. Hunted from 6:30am to 11:15am, at that point it was too hot to continue, packed it in and drove home, guzzling a bottle of warm water. Yeah it heated up a bit in the cars trunk. This was only my second hunt, the more I use the V5, the more I like it.
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For the person just entering the hobby, or a novice has no idea how to use manual controls or how they interact with each other. The Bliss can be a challenge. Those of us who have been in the hobby since the 60's and used multi control function detectors, using and setting up the Bliss will be much easier.
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Would you recommend this to a new user?
No, not really.
Sven from
Canada
20
First time out with bliss v3
November 16, 2016
I bought my Bliss V3 Second Hand for a reasonable price, it came with the
11 inch and 16 inch Coils, I have ordered a 7 inch coil too. I decided to
first try the bliss at a small playing field that I have hammered hard for
3 years and recovered 2000+ coins in total from this previously un detected
virgin park. Nothing much has been coming off the field recently as I have
hammered it hard with many different makes and models of detector.
Including the explorers from minelab. I thought this a perfect kind of site
to see if the Bliss V3 could find any more coins.
I only spent about 1 hour at the field with the bliss and managed to find about 25 more coins. None of the coins were at incredible depths like we see on youtube ie -those 16+ inch deep planted coins. I think my deepest was a victorian penny at 9 - 10 inches which gave a very strong smooth response that was a "I am a coin for sure signal". I dug no nails or iron. Iron crackles and is easy to ID, I was happy with iron ID.
I dug lots of bits of chewed up tin cans, a few pull tabs and some small foils bits, the response to aluminium bits is very strong indeed, the response to Gold is also fantastic on this detector, you will dig trash with this detector but if your coil goes over a GOLD or silver ring the response will blow your ear drums out! It is very hot on Gold Silver and copper.
I know something - you wont miss hardly any good targets at all with this extremely powerful detector, my detector was set to the lowest possible gain and sensitivity (threshold) yes the threshold control is actually a sensitivity control on this detector, they named it threshold for some reason. A fantastic detector!
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Would you recommend this to a new user?
Yes, absolutely!
Kingcoin Hunter from
UK
20
Bliss tool
September 21, 2016
I bought this bliss tool metal detector to take to England on my first trip
there. The videos the company put our made it look like just the one for
the trip. It picks up so much junk that I spend most of my time digging it
and not hunting coins or anything of value, now I had went to the local
parks around home for a couple months and while rest of guys were digging
valuables, I was digging foil or iron at 10" thinking that it would still
work overseas, I took it along.
Max Depth: 10 inches on US quarter
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Would you recommend this to a new user?
No, it's too complic
WAYNE ELLEFSON from
WISCONSIN
32
The downside of the blisstool
November 08, 2015
I've used a Blisstool in a local park and have to say that it's deep (but)
it does not have ample discrimination. It will dig a (LOT) of non-ferrous
trash up to at least an older-type aluminum square tab. So if one wants to
be on their hands and knees (all) day digging aluminum garbage, than this
is the detector for you. So (YES) if you're in a field or pasture where you
(WANT) to find most, if not all targets for the age and/or value they
represent, then (yes), this machine will really get the deep stuff but if
you're at the average old schoolyard or ball field with the typical high
trash content normally at these sites, this detector is a 'NO GO'.
I personally have better things to do with my time, gas, and money driving miles just to be digging nothing but mostly non-ferrous trash that I feel like this MD is an (EXPENSIVE) waste of money. Blisstool, along with many other Bulgarian brands seem like they just don't have a clue about what kind of MD Americans need and must think that raw depth alone makes a good detector. IT DOESN'T. Like a very powerful car with sloppy handling is useless.
Max Depth: 11 inches on US quarter
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No, it's too complic
Greg from
North Carolina
71
Made in bulgaria - more like somebodies shed!
September 25, 2015
Imagine a fisher f66 with the gain maxed out 64 times normal and that's
what this feels like to me - on paper sounds great ... But in reality is
just too unstable to use at its full potential. Similarities in circuitry
to fisher ones are said to be found by those tekkies in the know! Looks and
feels like a home-made detector from the 1990's and built in some bulgarian
shed IMO!
More potentiometer knobs and flick switches than you can hurl a brick at! Discrimination is terrible, ground balancing is time consuming and difficult needing constant adjustment. Bought after watching and reading what I now consider are some suspect reviews! Depth I show on us quarter is for perfect conditions, please note in normal conditions I found it virtually impossible to run and depth drops to about 6 inches tops in amongst the falsing and noise! I didn't give up easily with this machine and gave it a fair crack of the whip but it duly ended up as for sale on an auction site. Struggled to sell - lost a lot of money on this one!
Max Depth: 13 inches on US quarter
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Would you recommend this to a new user?
No, it's too complic
Daryn from
Uk
20
Its good for parks.
March 10, 2013
I recently purchased this Blisstool detector and have got out for few times
now. So far what I have read is that no good for public parks or areas
with a lot of trash, however I have gone to few local parks and some others
in the Longview area and so far I have been successfully hunting with it.
On my first day out with it it took me little of time to set the ground balance correctly but once I tuned in it was just great. Down in Longview I found a silver earing about 7" down and on each target that I found I was rising the coil to see how dip from the coil will it see each target and I am impressed with the depth of this machine.
Each time that I have been able to use it's just little less hard to set the balance correctly and on the Manual mode it's just great to use it.
I have to said that If there are targets dipper than 12" inches this will get them with no problem at all. That same day I got a copper washer that was about 13" down and it sound loud and solid on each pass.
On my next trip to a different park in Vancouver I found a Nice 925 Italy silver pendent and few feet away I found the chain for it, the pendent was at 7" and the chain at 4".
So on my opinion it's a great detector, the only thing that I don't like is the fact that it's a single tone machine but the discrimination to nails it's great and compensates for the one tone future.
The discrimination is so good that it has a discrimination depth and it will discriminate correctly down to 10", more than 11" the discrimination is not so good but the tone will not be as good as with a non ferrous target.
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Abel Villasenor from
Camas Wa.
2716