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Congrats on your first gold ring! It's a nice one too being 14k instead of the lowly 10k stuff?

Another advantage to lowering the sense is that you'll get some nice modulation on the deeper stuff. Just going from 20 to 17 will do that and it still goes very deep.

Wow, that barber's in great shape. I just found my first one about week ago and it's not nearly as nice as yours. Congrats!

I've had signals that were clipped while using no disc (all metal, horseshoe button engaged) and while doing a 360 degree swing on the target, I'll hit an angle where the signal will be a solid high tone. This in park 1 or park 2 with iron bias at zero on both. At almost all other angles of the my 360 degree swing, I'll hear iron and see negative numbers. I'll just get that one sweet spot where it'll high tone (5 tones). I think every time this has happened it's been a rusty old nail. Now if I do a 360 degree swing and get mostly high tones with just a few iron grunts, it's usually a coin with iron in the hole.

I haven't heard anything, but I'd love to see a small (6"or 8") concentric coil come available.

I like the looks of the one on the right, but the one on the left looks like it has more clamping surface and looks like the camlock itself is beefier.

Forgot to add: Does your rod use the OEM cuff or do you supply your own?

Thanks Steve!

That looks awesome! I take it without any holes for a pin to set into, the shaft is not only stronger, but infinitely adjustable in length. Any idea on the pricing?

Thanks, just ordered it.

I have the first book and would like to order the new one. Where do I order one from?

I used my 6" coil yesterday at the only cellar hole I've found near where I live. I've been through this place with a few other detectors: F70, mojave, compadre and my nox with the 11" coil. My nox has the updated software version. So yesterday using the 6" coil I got quite a bit of falsing with VDI's in the zinc penny range (19-21). This also happens to be indian head penny range and the only coin I found at this site was a 1906 indian head, but I found it with my tesoro mojave. I would get some solid zinc signals in one direction, but always iron grunts in the other and sometimes iron grunts with the zinc signals. I dug these in hope of an indian head with a nail next to it, but it was always a nail and there are tons of nails at this site. I was running park 1, sense anywhere from 16-23, iron bias anywhere from 0-9, recovery speed anywhere from 5-8 and 50 tones.

I'm another fan of the stock headphones. They've held up well and the case is really nice and protects them while traveling to the hunting site.

I'm curious as to why you're not running the highest recovery speed. On my 800 I hardly ever go below 5 and am usually at 6 or 7 in my trashy parks.

That is a really, really nice end result! I've been following this thread from the beginning waiting for the end result. I had never thought of kevlar as a shaft material, but it seems like a great, high quality choice for top performance. Thanks for posting all the pics and the step by step process.

I had to send my mojave in a while back because it was so noisy. Got two messages from Rusty at Tesoro...one on my cell and one on my home phone that it was a bad coil and they replaced it and it was on its way back to me. When I opened the box, there was also a handwritten receipt of what had been done to it and he mentioned in the note that they had included a new battery compartment cover! How often do you experience that today?

I"m thinking of a scoop for creeks around where I live and found this one that looks very sturdy for rocky/gravel bottoms: https://www.nuttallenterprises.com/products/copy-of-diamond-head-48-stainless-beach-scoop-yellow-grip-handle I asked a fellow member on the FMDF who has one and he thinks it's a great scoop for tough conditions.

I bought the Anderson shaft mainly because he includes a carbon fiber lower rod and a sturdy metal arm cuff. With the minelab cuff and the anderson rod the weight was almost exactly the same with the minelab rod just very slightly lighter. With the anderson metal cuff It was slightly heavier than the stock rod, but not noticeable IMO. I like it because it's rock solid now. Even though my stock rod seemed tight once I shimmed the cam lock, it still felt like something was loose when swinging. It might have been the arm cuff (I shimmed with tape too so it was a tighter fit on the rod). The one thing about the Anderson is that if you use his cuff, there's no built in stand on the underside. I ended up making one out of nylon round stock and delrin and now I'm very happy with it.

Congrats on a very cool find!

That's some great information Randy thanks for posting! Lower sens settings on the nox will still get pretty deep. I've found 8-9" lincoln cents with the sense at 17 or 18. This in moderately damp ground though. I guess the ticket for drier conditions would be to lower the sense, especially in mineralized soil.

What a great post and I agree with everything said especially lowering sensitivity. The OP never stated what sense he was using, but I suspect it was at least the factory default of 20. Lots of times I go down to 15 or 16 and still have dug coins at 7-8". And if you're looking for gold, you can probably go lower than that...most modern gold dropped in parks and ballfields isn't very deep...at least the gold I've found. On another note, Chase, are you the guy that wrote the Equinox book?

Ok, had my first hunt with the new Anderson shaft yesterday and it's rock solid, no looseness or creaking. As mentioned in my previous post, I ended up using the Anderson cuff which doesn't have a built-in stand. I really like the built-in stand of the minelab cuff and missed it while detecting yesterday. So last evening I made one for the Anderson shaft. This also covers up the scratches I made to the end of the shaft when I switched back and forth between the minelab and Anderson cuffs. I think my stand will make the detector much more stable when I set it down on the ground.

Received my anderson shaft today and just put it together. I do have the shaft twist...it's very slight, but if I tighten the screw pretty tight it's pretty much rock solid. But that screw is small and the surface area that makes contact with the lower shaft is very small and I just don't know how it will hold up over time. And I don't want to strip that screw as it's plastic. My main concern is with the lower rod on the closest hole to the head unit and with the head unit on the lowest hole, the detector is still about 1/2" higher (longer) than with the stock set up where the lower rod is on the 4th hole from the top. I'm 5'10" and don't have exceptionally long arms so it feels that the detector is still just a little long for my tastes. There's plenty of room in the upper rod for more holes. I wonder why Anderson didn't drill more for shorter people. For people shorter than me or people with long arms this shaft would be too long unless you like swinging way out in front of you. I also weighed the detector totally stock and with the new shaft and anderson cuff. It's slightly heavier now, but it seems a little better balanced. Hard to tell for sure on the balance because I don't have two to compare side by side...one stock and one with the anderson set up. I'm just going by remembering what the stock setup felt like before I changed it over to the Anderson. My only other gripe is that I originally took the Anderson cuff off as I wanted the stock one with the "feet" on it. (The Anderson doesn't have any feet on it's cuff to help keep the detector upright when you set it down.) As I slid it off the screw holes in it were not deburred and scratched the shaft pretty badly...it's just superficial, but it looks bad. I ended up putting the Anderson cuff back on because with the detector head in the lower hole the minelab cuff was up near my elbow...there's no adjustment for it, only one hole. The Anderson cuff has three adjustment holes and on the lowest one it feels good.

I hope it's not twisty as I just ordered one a few days ago and should be here today. I got the Anderson over the Pluggers because the Anderson comes with a carbon fiber lower shaft which is hopefully a better spec shaft than than the plastic stock one. Which should prevent any twisting or wobbling.