Popular Post CCadrin Posted March 2, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted March 2, 2021 Ring # 5 with the AQ. This ring was at least 12" in the packed mud and it has been down there for a very long time. It was barely auditable. The ring did not have any gold markings but tested as 14k. I would NOT have hit this with the NOX. I was running the machine hot. Settings were: Sensitivity=7, Delay=8, ATS=5, ALL METAL. I went slower than usual to keep the chatter down for the setting above. The location is where I have found rings in the past 18 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Beechnut OBN Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Boom!! The AQ loves those small gold rings! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tvr Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 As ugly as it was before the clean up I would have bet it was silver. Good recovery on that one! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCadrin Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 9 minutes ago, tvr said: As ugly as it was before the clean up I would have bet it was silver. Good recovery on that one! The outside of the ring was blackish due to the mud. The inside had a gold tone but the pic above didn't really show it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe D. Posted March 2, 2021 Share Posted March 2, 2021 Give us a couple of close-ups of the ring! Look's old! You said no 14k mark, but how about a maker's mark? A jeweler can confirm! Great job on a faint signal!👍👍 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCadrin Posted March 2, 2021 Author Share Posted March 2, 2021 24 minutes ago, Joe D. said: Give us a couple of close-ups of the ring! Look's old! You said no 14k mark, but how about a maker's mark? A jeweler can confirm! Great job on a faint signal!👍👍 I have an older Iphone so my closeups are only so-so. There are two dots which could be a makers mark but I never seen one with two dots. I did a 10k, 14k, and 18k acid test. The '18' ate it up right away. I went for a shower and the '10' and '14' was still intact when I came out. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okara gold Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 Nice find on the ring. I’ll bet OBN has seen his share of tarnished gold rings. I found a pretty nice white 10k a few years ago after a storm caused a sizable cut. It had a lot of green tarnish on it and I wasn’t too sure about it at the beach, but it felt heavy and had 3 stones. Sure enough at home it cleaned up nicely and was gold with diamonds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CCadrin Posted March 3, 2021 Author Share Posted March 3, 2021 46 minutes ago, okara gold said: Nice find on the ring. I’ll bet OBN has seen his share of tarnished gold rings. I found a pretty nice white 10k a few years ago after a storm caused a sizable cut. It had a lot of green tarnish on it and I wasn’t too sure about it at the beach, but it felt heavy and had 3 stones. Sure enough at home it cleaned up nicely and was gold with diamonds. Occasionally, we'll get a ring that is so delicate that if you drop it on a hard surface they will break into multiple pieces. This one tested as a 14k so I was a little surprised that there was so much tarnish and erosion of the filler metal. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
okara gold Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 13 minutes ago, CCadrin said: Occasionally, we'll get a ring that is so delicate that if you drop it on a hard surface they will break into multiple pieces. This one tested as a 14k so I was a little surprised that there was so much tarnish and erosion of the filler metal. Yep. That is surprising. My 14k’s generally clean up real nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
schoolofhardNox Posted March 3, 2021 Share Posted March 3, 2021 10 hours ago, CCadrin said: Occasionally, we'll get a ring that is so delicate that if you drop it on a hard surface they will break into multiple pieces. This one tested as a 14k so I was a little surprised that there was so much tarnish and erosion of the filler metal. So true. I found a nice 10K ring, what I call a panel ring that had 8 sides to it. The coolest ring ever. I dropped it on the tiled kitchen floor, as I was showing it to my wife. It shattered at each connecting point. I now had 8 small panels and no ring 😄.......😭😭😭 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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