bob.oz
Active member
These two chains,18k 15.7g religious & 14k 10.1g cat, are the first gold chains I ever found with the Xcal....... They were found weeks apart.
The 18k chain is all one piece having no clasp and is 32" long. The pendant is marked 18k and the chain, although having no tag/mark to show what k it is, tests at 18k also.
The 14k chain is broke at one end and was dangling out the scoop like a strand of spaghetti when I first saw it. The cat pendant, (marked 14k), was keeping it from falling through the scoop. I was lucky that the pendant could not slide over the clasp, if it went the other way the chain could have slid right off the pendent and through the scoop leaving just the cat in the scoop without the chain.
My luck didn't end there...................
Last week I was out hunting on a really bad day to be water hunting. There were big waves rolling in and breaking on the bar and a strong out going current to fight that had me asking myself a few times, what am I doing out here. The usual smooth sandy bottom was full of holes from the pounding surf that had been going on for 3 days and it was really hard to walk on let alone swing the coil over the uneven bottom. After an hour or so I turned around and started heading back with the $1.25 in coin that I had found when I got a nice 14k,8.7g gold band. Thinking what luck, I put the band in my pouch....I thought, and continued hunting for several more minutes.
I soon found a dime and when putting it away in my pouch discovered the ring was not there. Backtracked and refound it twenty minutes later only because I was a looking up at the beach when I first found it and had a good idea where it might be. Feeling relieved and lucky, I made sure the band was in the pouch this time and called it a day. GL ALL
The 18k chain is all one piece having no clasp and is 32" long. The pendant is marked 18k and the chain, although having no tag/mark to show what k it is, tests at 18k also.
The 14k chain is broke at one end and was dangling out the scoop like a strand of spaghetti when I first saw it. The cat pendant, (marked 14k), was keeping it from falling through the scoop. I was lucky that the pendant could not slide over the clasp, if it went the other way the chain could have slid right off the pendent and through the scoop leaving just the cat in the scoop without the chain.
My luck didn't end there...................
Last week I was out hunting on a really bad day to be water hunting. There were big waves rolling in and breaking on the bar and a strong out going current to fight that had me asking myself a few times, what am I doing out here. The usual smooth sandy bottom was full of holes from the pounding surf that had been going on for 3 days and it was really hard to walk on let alone swing the coil over the uneven bottom. After an hour or so I turned around and started heading back with the $1.25 in coin that I had found when I got a nice 14k,8.7g gold band. Thinking what luck, I put the band in my pouch....I thought, and continued hunting for several more minutes.
I soon found a dime and when putting it away in my pouch discovered the ring was not there. Backtracked and refound it twenty minutes later only because I was a looking up at the beach when I first found it and had a good idea where it might be. Feeling relieved and lucky, I made sure the band was in the pouch this time and called it a day. GL ALL
