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Wonder if it might be a period style preference? My mother-in-law's ring is very similar and it dates to the early 1960's.

Love those kind of days! Congrats on the quick find.

Although I don't do much dirt hunting now, I did do well hunting old church properties. My favorite for that was the F75 LTD and the 6.5 inch elliptical coil to sort through the trash. Lots of people swear by the 5 inch DD coil, but I developed a strong preference for the little elliptical. When it cools off some, I may need to go ask for some permissions again and put some batteries in the F75 LTD. 😉

LOL ... he is near me. He has put a lot of research into old swim spots and it pays off. I hunt newer community beaches and that pays off too. He hunts more hours than I do, and gives so much back to us all that there is no way I'd ever be annoyed. I don't know how he stays in that dry suit in the heat. I have a couple cuts that I need to heal before I get back into the murky bacteria filled waters here. When it is cooler, I do waders and during winter add the trapper gauntlets and stay dry. There is just so much shore line here that no one really covers all the places people swim and loose stuff. Great hunt OBN! Can hardly wait 'til I get to hunt with an AQ.

Thanks. Been watching the tides and doing a little local reconnaissance. There have been more people in the water at our community beach than I've seen in several years. New observation is that a lot of kayak activity has people landing on the sandy portions in repeatable patterns to swim before they set off again. Why people kayak and wear jewelry is a mystery to me, but if they loose it and I find it, I won't complain. We are off to OBX in three weeks. I've got a mosfet ordered for the HHPulse to see if maybe I can get it back up before that trip; although I am still not sure where the yellow wire is supposed to go. Most of my local water activity so far this year has been perch and catfish catching for fish fries. I'm hoping for some long strong NNW winds this fall and winter.

Most sunglasses I recover are badly scratched or get bent or broken when I scoop them. Last year I got a pair of Ray Bans that our eldest daughter claimed and from this trip I got two usable cheap ones that our son-in-law now has. The pile in the picture has one set of Ray Bans with glass lenses and most of the shade coating worn off and the metal frames are pitted. Most sunglasses end up in the trash due to their condition when recovered. The green "stone" is a cheap mood ring.

Fun family week in North Myrtle Beach. Detecting started with a lot of soft sand and 4 second wave intervals. Monday had hard rip currents but waves were at 6 seconds; I wanted an 8 inch coil (that I don't have) for reduced pull in the water and not the 10 inch. The hard rip tide did strip a lot of sand off the bottom and the rest of the week there was a couple mile long sand bar out a little ways and a harder bottom cut between the sand bar and the beach. Should have been great conditions in the cut, but it turned out to be a fishing sinkers and sunglasses finding week. I did get one little sterling silver earring, but no real good detecting finds. Had a lot of fun with the grand kids. Friday morning had a life guard ask me to get out of the rip current. Talked with him for a little while. He said he wasn't worried about me but his supervisor had pulled up and their instructions were to keep people out of the rip. I mentioned that today was not bad, Monday was difficult and that I hit the rip areas because the current pulls the soft sand layer back to a harder layer that might give me a chance at good targets. He said he had pulled three people out of the water on Monday. The issue was that if someone is in the rip area, others will follow; including not well monitored kids. He then said that once his supervisor left on her rounds, I could go back in. Nice young man. Only saw two others detecting the entire week and none of the familiar faces I normally meet when we visit.

Very nice old ring. Congrats on a great recovery!

The Zeners was an easy to fit in the space try. Beyond that to get rid of the clipping is probably an AGC circuit and that would mean a circuit card in limited space. I no longer have the tools to do a photo etch board so I would not be of much help with that. At least the stock AQ phones seem to be pretty good.

For the AQ, do you think you might consider using something like a Zener diode based limiter with the Skullies?

Very nice find on the lure! That one would go in the tackle box. Thanks for the report!

LOL ... I know that mode too.

Having read the whole thread, I'll go back to the part quoted. How much more are the expensive stainless steel connectors? I'd think that I'd pay more for a version that would keep the continuity of the shielding, maybe not $1,000 more but certainly $100 more. And if that would mean that it needs to be coated in silicon grease to keep it looking nice, that is OK too.

Agreed. And a little lol ... part of what the "tools won" trying to quote two threads in one is that after three tries, I shortened my reply and did not put in the part where it wouldn't change how useful the AQ could be, just a minor tweek in use methods. Heck, the SandShark was dead quiet with a connector on the coil, but the much noisier HHPu;se (with the coil connector on the headphones that only got dunked when I got rolled by a wave) was a better gold producer by far and much easier to figure iron once I found ways to have more listen time around the noise creating wave and water depth events.

Thank you. And sorry about the mixed bold stuff above ... I fought with trying to quote from different threads in one reply and the tools won.

And in the in the thread on Gold ... Class Ring and Medallion On 6/27/2020 at 2:57 PM, Joe Beechnut OBN said: "The AQ does have a sensitive area, just like my excalibur with the coil change fitting and the Garrett Infinium LS...... ..right around the coil connector...So in rough or splashing waters your going to hear every little splash (falsing) . I have learned on the excalibur to time my hunting to when the tide will be right below or above. Either the water will be below the sensitive area or above...nothing right at...and now the same goes for the AQ" So if it can be fixed with the Infinium, can it be fixed with the AQ? I'd like the hear from Alexandre Tartar if it can be worked with an assembly detail fix or something else or if it is something to just live with. The adjustments at least allow some mitigation.

I've been thinking the same thing. Sounds like the packaging design is already committed to the 4 lithium ion 18650 type, which may mean they have the design done and are working towards package certifications already. And if the packaging is that far along, and the electronic head is unchanged, then is it possible the advertised 100 limited units that are kitted out could be diverted to producing final version and we get fewer, say 25, limited versions delivered? Water levels near me are way up, so I'm not out hunting the waters. Already packed for the next trip, so too much time to think!

Thank you for trying that. I hope you are right that they will keep it well balanced. A little bit lighter coil might just do the trick. I think I remember reading that during the development they had played with different types of epoxy with difference weight density for the coil as part of the overall dynamics of the package ... but please don't have a coil that needs to be held down because it wants to float!

How is the balance of the swing with current battery box removed (sort of like shown) compared to it fully assembled and ready to go? Reason for question is that, on the couple of occasions I have had elbow problems, I have added weight behind the arm cuff of some of my detectors to better balance them and reduce torque induced on the elbow. Upper edge of arm cuff positioned right behind elbow and not on forearm helps too.

Same thing helped with the HH Pulse. Other thing that helped was holding the coil just off or barely touching the bottom and letting the wave motion sweep the coil. That way it didn't sound as much on the moving water and when timed right with the water movement would give more listen time for targets and less listen time for detector settling. How does the water drag on the AQ compare to the drag on the 10 inch Excal?

Few years back, wife and I flew to Daytona beach. Of the detectors at hand at the time, an Excal and Sand Shark fit the luggage space available best. I found an area of red sand about 10 to 15 feet wide and about 100 feet long that the excal just sounded off on in all metal and nulled completely in disc. Sand Shark pulled up coins in that area. On the same trip Sand Shark also found a ring for a panicked young lady who flipped the sand off a blanket and forget her ring was on the blanket and found a white gold keeper under a pier where the EMI was killing the Excal. Glad you added "most"!

Ah, yes. There is some hope of not having to just excavate the entire area for the one ring I know of off the private pier. Thanks for that OBN! Hope springs eternal while I wait to have an AQ. Thanks again for all the work you do and share with us!!

I've seen pictures of you pulling up a lot of rings over the years with the resizing joint broken. Interested in seeing if you pick up such "broken" rings from now through July (or through the summer, however long it takes) and how they sound or act with the AQ.

I thought I saw that in the video. HH pulse (that died on me early June ... this June has been hard on my old detectors) would do that and then hunt pretty quiet while on the bottom in the bay waters. It was a different story at ocean beaches and I would need to kind of follow the wave motion with the coil and then could pick out good targets from the water noise. Looking forward to some reports of people using the AQ in the ocean waters as to how quiet it is or isn't. Congrats on the gold!

Must be some variation in units. My CZ-20 that just died was dead quiet to electrical disturbance when I could see lightning and hear it, but not through the electronics. It was also custom tuned to notch out a zincoln and sound nickles as mid-tone rather than high tone. It would let me hunt only mid-tones when I wasn't just hunting auto-tune. Funny hearing "old timer" as we are both now retired and I've been called that term already. I can not attest to thunder storm hunting being good or bad, I have an aversion to being a lightning rod and will pack it in.