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These are the keepers from the last two weekends! I was absolutely over the moon with my first Walker. What a rush! Silver has been slow in coming so far this season, but that same spot also yielded a '46 Rosie, a sterling spoon, and a sterling thimble. Today and tomorrow we're getting a Nor'easter, but I sure hope to be able to get back there this weekend! Also, I've started filming my hunts and set up a youtube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetDirtMetalDetecting. I've done two episodes so far, and I'm learning as I go. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback you might have for me! Happy Hunting!
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Am I Overthinking This?
SwiftSword replied to SwiftSword's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Thanks for the feedback! I’ve removed the odious staged find, and the whole video is much better for it! -
All, Together with a few friends I’m setting up a YouTube channel with detecting videos. I made a tongue-in-cheek trailer, made up like a David Attenborough nature documentary (including my own, horrible impression of his voice). It’s quite obvious that the whole thing is staged, including a scene where I’ve “found” a gold ring (my own wedding band). I showed the video to my friends and one commented “faking finds already?” He may have meant it as a joke, but now I’m worried that I’m risking the integrity of the whole venture because I didn’t think this through. Could I please have your thoughts on this? Would an obviously staged find in this context immediately put you off, or would you see it as part of the joke? I’m not sure if linking the video is allowed, but if @Steve Herschbach is ok with it, I will. Thank you!
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How My Christmas Morning Went!
SwiftSword replied to SwiftSword's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
My best presents for sure 😄 -
How My Christmas Morning Went!
SwiftSword replied to SwiftSword's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
He didn't seem too happy, very sluggish. But the forsythias are blooming in my yard, I guess global warming is confusing for all creatures. -
How My Christmas Morning Went!
SwiftSword replied to SwiftSword's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
I don't know, but I don't think that would have entered into it. A knife or a small dirk would be more practical for a kid. children back then were treated as small adults. They wore the same clothes, were expected to observe the same manners and habits, etc. Their toys were often regular adult tools and objects, just on a smaller scale, with no particular allowance for safety etc. An interesting question is whether toys like this sword would be restricted to higher strata of society, or if any kid could play "officer". -
How My Christmas Morning Went!
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No other changes other than frequency check. Oh, and I like high square tones, but I don't think that affects anything. -
With everyone sleeping in, I had a couple of hours to spend in the woods here in eastern Mass. My 18th century spot is pretty picked over and very trashy, but it seems every time I go, I come back with at least one good thing. It's close, and pretty, so that's where I went. On the suggestion of a friend I ran my Deus II in Fast 40, full tones. Never used that program before, but I find I really like it. It hits brass and copper really hard, and gives a very distinctive tone for aluminum. The first good signal was a strong, operatic 96. For a hot minute I thought I had a colonial coin. It turned out to be a 1788 Conder token in excellent shape, nothing like the colonial coins I've found there before. I have no idea how it ended up here in the US. Supposedly they circulated here, but only in very small numbers. However, they were popular collector's items from the get go. I'm thinking that odd notch at precisely six o'clock might have had a loop soldered into it, and this was dangling from someone's watch chain. Next came my first 1940s safety razor, the kind grandpa used to slice up the bath towels when he was drying it off. Thanks to stainless steel, it came out pretty much the way it went in. It lists patents underneath which were issued in 1929 and 1930, and expired in 1946. Once I got the cap off, it revealed itself as a "Gem Micromatic clog-pruf" safety razor. Made in the early 1940s. One of the little hinge bits was corroded and fell out. I'm going to see if I can get a replacement. Who knows, I might even try shaving with it! Now the fun part. This hollow thing with tentacles had me stumped. I had no idea what it could have been, and when the good folks of reddit told me what it was, I didn't believe them. But sure enough, it is the quillon of a smallsword. A child-sized smallsword. Apparently these were popular toys in colonial times. I wonder at the level of anxiety this may have caused colonial era mothers, and how many accidental stabbings occurred. "You'll poke thine eye out!" Here's a two-foot long example with a silver hilt. The quillon is pretty much identical. Naturally there was a spoon, a rusty little adze, and a bunch of trash. The garter snake was a bonus surprise at this time of year.
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Buttons Of Xp Deus 2 Remote Controller Very Hard To Push!
SwiftSword replied to detector's topic in XP Deus II Forum
If the buttons are hard to push for you, how are you going to dig all those 5ft deep holes? 😉 -
Under what circumstances would you want the coil cover off?
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My issue with the missing buttons is resolved, I've edited my comment.
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EDIT: The missing button issue is resolved by changing the "reduce transparency" setting under "accessibility". On iPhone, the app keeps running even when the phone is off. I went with all the default settings and ended up with 182 targets recorded in an hour and a half 🙂 I can vaguely see the potential of an app like that, but I just don't have the patience to whip out my phone every time I've dug something. There are also still a few bugs they'll need to work out. For instance, none of the buttons at the bottom show up for me. I can click them, but I have to grope in the dark (well, the white).
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Cleaning Success On An 1838 Large Cent
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Cleaning Success On An 1838 Large Cent
SwiftSword replied to SwiftSword's topic in Metal Detecting For Coins & Relics
Silver is a different animal. It's so soft that you can't use scrapers or brushes on it without scratching it up. Fortunately, silver stands up really well to many chemical treatments. You can try a hot peroxide bath to loosen the crud if it's organic. More likely the black stuff is tarnish, which forms when the silver reacts with sulfur in the soil. The process can be reversed with electrolysis. The simplest form of that is to put the coin in a bath of hot water, aluminum foil, baking soda and a little lemon juice.