Sinclair

Great story. I once found "ash jewelry" while water hunting - but I didn't recognise it as such untill I was at home. Few days later, I went back to the beach and threw it where I thought I found it.

I use the WSAII with mini-jack adapter all the time- that way I can use my favorite headphones with both of my machines. What's really cool about it is, that it switches on automatically with the RC, so it can reside in its little pouch. Bummer that you can't see the battery status on the RC.

As I always say: Anyone who finds somethin whilst water hunting deserves it 😄 Hard on yourself and your material

Nice, congrats!

Maybe it has been planted - but the patina looks correct to me. They get kind of dark brown reddish, and some of them stay very smooth. I think the worn one I found has already been worn down as it got lost. Cool find anyway.

Actually I‘ve only found two of those in 8 years of detecting:

The German 10 Pfennig coin is in pretty good condition. These days they're a rare find on the beach - even over here.

It's getting less every year - the Equinox paid off in 6 months. The Deus 2 will take significantly longer + has been twice as expensive. Still think it's a little bit overpriced for what you get, but I needed a new toy 😁 The bathing season hasn't been all that great, but we had a great winter season after a big storm. Lately I've used the 9" coil exclusively, which works surprisingly well on the beach.

Congrats - always fun to find foreign currency. Friend of mine found a 60's Half Dollar two weeks ago - pretty cool! As for Euro coins .. I usually find ~2000 per year (including Euro-Cent coins of course) 😜 Not this year I think.. there haven't been many tourists, but a lot of detectorists.

Nice ring! Where are you from (country)?

Very true!

It's totally stupid + the buttons are quite hard to push and not located very ergonomically - I have to crook down my thumb to get to the PP button. That's why I don't use PP at all, since owning the D2.

Imho the newer "CF" stamped rods maybe fibre glass or carbon fibre reinforced, but there certainly not 100% carbon fibre and they're way to sloppy, if you're using the >=11" coil. Detect-Ed sells a direct replacement carbon fibre lower rod, which helps a lot. Been using it since 3/4 year without a problem.

Haha! I sometimes wished, I'd find 3 in a whole year!

Just as a sidenote: On my Equinox the pod is attached to the shaft with stainless screws and the pod itself is equipped with brass inserts. I haven't seen any visable corrosion there, yet. On the other hand, the nickel plating of the headphone connector doesn't like saltwater all that much. I once didn't rinse it of and it got green quite quick.