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Thanks Steve, I had been thinking the same regarding it being a good connection.  I'll be removing mine too.  It's a great conversion for me otherwise.  I go backpacking with my detector often. 

Hi Steve,

First, thank you for showing this conversion and, of course, for having such a great website!

In the configuration you are showing in your pics, you have the coil mounted against the blue knurl nut.  I tried doing it this way but got the surprise of having the coil constantly detecting the nut assembly every time the coil was bumped slightly.  I'm thinking to remove the nut assembly and mount directly to the remaining carbon shaft ( I have a now modified coil mount from a spare minelab lower shaft).  This will leave just over twelve inches length, when fully extended, before the next knurl nut assembly.  Do you think that will be far enough away from the coil to prevent unwanted detection of the nut while swinging and bumping the coil around?   

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I use this exact shovel.  In fact, I'm on my second one.  I absentmindedly left the first one at a site that I could only reach by boat.  I wasn't going back after it. But I sure did miss it.  It's very light and very well built, better than ones from the hardware store.

I sharpened it up a bit on a light grinding wheel.  And use a heat gun to quickly remove the horrible sticker that is slapped on it from the vendor.  Folks trying to use googone are in for some frustation.

Thanks.  I didn't think much about it when finding the arrowhead, but it turned out to be the coolest thing I found on that trip other having a great time.  I like your arrowheads!

I found this metal arrowhead in western Colorado while multi-day backpacking  in search of Spanish treasure.  I had a lightly modified Gold Bug Pro strapped to my arm and was swinging willy nilly as I walked along.  I never would have chosen the spot to detect, but I had grown accustomed to swinging the GBP all day long wherever I was.  I found no other metal objects in the area.

I'm told the arrowhead dates to the mid 1800's.