Tasco 25x30mm Hand-Held Telescope

by Tasco

Product Details

• Item Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B0001DZ2F4
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,425 in Camera & Photo (See Top 100 in Camera & Photo)
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 6, 2006

Product Description

A classic hand-held telescope with a gleaming brass finish and leatherette trim. Extends from 5.25"" to 14"" and includes an attractive leatherette carrying case with wrist strap and belt loop.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Exellent first buy!, August 14, 2008

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C. Lucas (Sweden) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tasco 25x30mm Hand-Held Telescope (Electronics)

This is an exellent buy if this is your first brass spyglass. For being so sheap this sure is good quality, every part of it is verry accurate. I really do have seen a lot worse. People who do not CARE to examine and learn for themselves OR are not used to handle and use spyglasses may have some problem getting the focus right. In any case the focus is really sharp when you do get it right.

You need to twist the smallest tube to change the focus depth. Pracise make perfect!

Even thou its not verry big in size i found that it was as "big" and heavy as i would tolerate for easy carrying and easy use in a larp. You may carry it in a small beltbag, and it fits nicely in your palm.

The only bad thing about it was the fake-leather. I bought it to use on a Pirate LARP (Live Action Role Playing) and i had to remove the plastic "leather" and sew on a new real piece of darkbrown leather myself.
Besides this, modern brass items are often lacquerd with a special clear brass protective lacquer, witch makes it impossible to corrode. I wandted that antique feeling since im using it on larps. So in order to get that old look to it I took everything apart (total disensembling), and polished off the lacquer using a grinding machine with a verry fine polishing rondell, and reassembled it. Afer two months it looked like a movie prop, corroded (darkened) and beautiful.
However I do not recommend anyone to do this UNLESS you are a craftsman who knows how to work metals and have basic (proffessional) polishing skills. If you are going to do this anyway, be extra careful to remove the glass parts so that you dont accidentally polish them! And be careful not to grind away any metal or you may destroy it completley.

There are more than five, exactly the same, spyglasses here on Amazon.com they look exactly the same and comes with the same fake-leather carrying case. So im leaving this rating on a fiew of them. They are all manufactured in the same place, probably china, and distributed to the different vendors.


I hope my rewiew was any help to you!
Have a Good Larp!
:D

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pretty little spyglass, September 25, 2005

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Elson Alves "Oaktree" (Salvador, BA - BRA) - See all my reviews
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Ok guys, it is a spyglass, not a telescope.
A real pretty little piece, I bough it as a gift for friends, as some nostalgic piece to remind us that distance isn't a problem.
Very well done, classical look. Only downside: the case looks cheap.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Spyglass, April 4, 2009

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G. Ramirez "G" - See all my reviews
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I work on a boat and I just wanted to mess around and bring it out when the guys were watching. The spyglass actually works fine, but it has its limitations. One of which is finding what you are pointing at and the other is focusing. Once you get the hang of it it gets somewhat easier, but not much.