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    Turquoise Quality?

    in Rocks, Minerals, Gems & Geology

    Posted

    Thanks Joe! I do still have all my tools except the casting equipment and I still have a ton of cabachons. I have produced a few pieces after I wound down but haven’t done anything in 15 years. I may have to revisit that part of my life again as this thread has piqued my interest. Interesting to me, on the early piece I didn’t stamp it Sterling.

    Turquoise Quality?

    in Rocks, Minerals, Gems & Geology

    Posted

    Revisiting this thread, I just thought I would show some silversmithing I did when I was in my 20’s. This is one of my earliest pieces. A shadow box with a heavy gauge silver and nice turquoise cab. It’s been so many years ago I don’t remember the mine it came from but it, along with other stones, I bought from two miners in Sholow AZ.

     

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    Turquoise Quality?

    in Rocks, Minerals, Gems & Geology

    Posted

    I was a working Silversmith for two decades and repaired a lot of silver and turquoise jewelry for the local shops as well as produced several hundred pieces of hand wrought and cast items.

     The turquoise looks like a low quality Bisbee Mine cabachon. The crack in the cab takes the value down somewhat as condition is everything.

    The silver bracelet is of medium quality and I don’t remember seeing Navajo bracelets stamped 925 very often in the 1970/80’s. Usually it was stamped Sterling.

    The Turquoise stone looks to be stabilized so if in fact it is that will give you an idea of its age. To me I’d say late 1980’s early 1990’s.

    Nox 6"dd Coil On My Tough Targets

    in Metal Detecting For Jewelry

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    11 hours ago, Dances With Doves said:

    I tested the 6" coil on my deep white gold ring that is tiny and sub  gram  and  gives a 2  for a id number on a air test. I tried pk1 first and all I got was a soft  iron sound which is a no go unless your desperate.I then tried pk2 in multi freq. with a sens. of  22 and got a  great hit with good id.I put it in 20kz. in same mode and got a average hit with mixed  positive and neg. numbers.I then put it in  40kz. and it gave a         real good  hit with more positive numbers. all did better  or worse  depending on the  angle.I then put it in gold2 mode and multi freq.  for the first test and sens. at 23 and it slammed it with great id numbers and I could lift coil about 4'' and still get it. I put it 20kz. and it gave a great hit  with good up average numbers .I then put it in 40 kz. and it slammed it at a 25 sens.  setting.I could  lift the coil about 5'' off the ground and still get it.  I will try the toughest of these targets next which is my 18k  white gold chain.This coil has it's place.Also a id of  2 is small  for a  ring..

    This is very helpful. Thanks DWD!

    New Here- Kind Of

    in Meet & Greet

    Posted

    18 hours ago, Compass said:

    Thanks BeachHunter, I'll keep an eye open for that VW. I learned to drive a stick in one of those. 😉

    I loved my Bus. I had 3 of them over the years. Don’t look for the yellow bus because it will look like a Tacoma. Lol!

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