Continues To Impress Me

[schoolofhardNox]

Usually after a while of owning the next great thing in metal detectors, you kind of settle into the reality of what you purchased and how much of the hype is real or not. The Equinox is no exception. I am speaking strictly about beach hunting here, as I have not played a lot with it in real dirt.  Today I hit my favorite gold beach. The tide was awful having a (coefficient of 35), meaning there is not much difference between low and high tide. This beach has terrible EMI from trains that run regularly and are close to you. Chatter city for about 5 minutes when they pass. I do realize that a small beach has to stop producing after a while, especially since there are a LOT of beach hunters in my area. So today the clad count was around 1 dollar. (8AM to 4 PM) I still can not believe a machine can continue to produce good finds under these conditions, but the Equinox does. Today was a stellar hunt after a slow start. 4 Mercury dimes, a buffalo nickel, some wheats and copper pennies and the 2 gold rings pictured. This  10K and Aquamarine  beauty surfaced about 2 hours into the hunt. The last target of the day was what I believe is a 14K gold square cut diamond ring that may have been colored either with Silver or most likely Rhodium. It's marked and has the TWC (total carat weight) inscribed in it. It's worn but I think it says .48. Also has very worn numbers in it which may be a registration number in it. I was floored that the Equinox continues to give up the finds on pounded beaches. Hats off to Minelab. That Diamond ring was sitting at 10 inches on packed rock bottom. Rang in a choppy number 6. Out of the hole it was a solid 6 also.

 

[Alluminati]

Holy smokes right on!

[Guest Tnsharpshooter]

Looks good to me.

Congrats and thanks for sharing.

If I were finding those at the beach, I wouldn’t care much for any dirt hunting.

[Sinclair]

Congrats!

I should really dig some more low numbers...

[dewcon4414]

Really couple of nice tickets there.  Have to say the Nox is a machine that makes it hard to want to grab another machine to hunt with. ...... especially for beach hunting.  You say ok im not finding anything deep let me grab the Xcal..... but before you leave you put it back thinking awwww ill miss a nice chain today if i do that lol.

[Jackpine]

Sweet!  Diamonds are a rare find for me and that's a nice one!

[RayfromAK]

The silver color on that ring may be because it's what some call "white gold."  This type of gold loses its silvery color with time, so one can take it to a jeweler (better explained toward the end of this article):

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-white-gold-chemical-composition-608015

 

[schoolofhardNox]

17 hours ago, Sinclair said:

Congrats!

I should really dig some more low numbers...

I dig them all. It's too hard to determine if they are deep targets or just small pieces of can slaw. But I have found the best low numbers are 1-2, 6, & 9. The others in-between can  be odd shaped pieces, studs, etc... and junk too of course. Generally a solid, longer sounding, repeatable tone, has produced most of my good finds. But I'm still learning and I'm having a hard time trying other settings because the ones I have, work well so far. Who knows how many inches I have lost by not being flexible with trying new settings

[schoolofhardNox]

2 hours ago, RayfromAK said:

The silver color on that ring may be because it's what some call "white gold."  This type of gold loses its silvery color with time, so one can take it to a jeweler (better explained toward the end of this article):

https://www.thoughtco.com/what-is-white-gold-chemical-composition-608015

 

2 hours ago, RayfromAK said:

 

Yep, I think it's either Rhodium or Platinum like the article you linked to stated. Thanks for posting it. I heard of Rhodium plating before,  but I never knew of platinum being used.

[flakmagnet]

I do think from reading your posts Mr. Nox, that they show the operator is a large part of any successes that arise. Nice shooting.