FOUND IT! FIANCE'S PLATINUM AND DIAMOND RING $7000

[sovereignelite]

Finally got out the door to the front yard today. Found the ring after about an hour and a half. Plus 1 shotgun shell, 2 pulltabs and 27 cents! One happy lady! When I came in I told her I had ,"no luck today." Then I said ,"but do you want this?" Then I handed her the ring. I got one BIG hug and pretty darn good kiss! I told her," An' I coulda bought a Blisstool AND a CTX 3030 with that!"

 

[sovereignelite]

I guess you can only add one pic at a time?

Does she look happy!

 

[sovereignelite]

n/t

 

[xwyokid]

Great job. I hope I can match you after Thanksgiving. I will be searching for a diamond cocktail ring that was lost in 1982.

 

[sovereignelite]

It was really a matter of looking in the right spot. I had looked with a borrowed junk detector before I bought the Elite and dug EVERYTHING. But I did not go over the spot I went over today. When I did it was so close to the surface that the signal was VERY loud! It was maybe an inch deep. It was lost when there was deep snow on the gound.

 

[Ron from Michigan]

Elite,nice ring.Thanks for sharing.HH Ron

 

[Tin Fin]

Sooooo.... what does Platinum come up as in terms of the numbers on the meter?

Great find, I hope she never gives you any trouble for detecting down the road... oh the guilt trip that could be weilded on that one!

 

[Neil]

n/t

 

[sovereignelite]

I think it was in the 170's...no, get enough guilt trips(JK) ha ha

 

[sovereignelite]

Thanks for all the positive feedback guys(and/or gals for that matter)

 

[robby4570]

Good job! I love MY Sovereign Elite!

 

[Critterhunter]

Pulled this out of your other older thread about your intentions to hunt for that ring....

If you look in the chart above, we sampled one man's platnum ring of medium to large size and it read 157. If you look in the "Condensed" thread link near the end, another similar sized platnum ring read very near it in numbers if I remember right. I would shoot for perhaps nickel to tab zone (like 140 to 169) perhaps for a large women's platnum ring maybe then.

Of course rings can read wildly. Even gold rings of the same K and size can read off a good bit, due to what they mix with the gold (copper, nickel, silver, etc). I don't know about platnum. Is it mixed with other metals or is it pure? If it's pure, then the numbers should be very close based on size from one to the next.

Either way, might be fun to bet on VDI #s as a game here? What do you mean by "thick"? Meaning as wide as a pencil's width? Not thickness, but width. If that's the case (that wide or wider), then I'll guess minimum of a 140 VDI # but more than likely in the low 150's. I'll bet 151 as the VDI #. Anybody else have a guess?

You WILL find that ring. Just a question of when, since nobody has hunted that yard, unless the guy came back and found it in the snow, which I doubt. Good luck and keep us informed!

Then in this current thread...

Sooooo.... what does Platinum come up as in terms of the numbers on the meter?

Great find, I hope she never gives you any trouble for detecting down the road... oh the guilt trip that could be weilded on that one!

I think it was in the 170's...no, get enough guilt trips(JK) ha ha

Welp, I original said probably in the 140 to 169 VDI range based on the rough guess of size of a ring and it being platnum, but then after that I guessed lower at 151. Should have stuck with my first guess. I was suspecting that ring to be a bit less wide being a woman's ring compared to my friend's two platnum man's rings, but her's looks just about as wide or perhaps wider. Either that or the stone mount on her ring probably raised the VDI a bit more, as my friend's two rings are plain bands. Maybe they use something other than platnum to set the stones in?

Either way it was fun to guess a potential VDI, and more importantly of course awesome job there and like Tin Fin said now I bet she'll never complain if you want to go do some detecting. Now you've got a "Remember that ring I found for you" excuse to buy yourself some detecting credits.

PS- Anybody know if platnum rings are pure platnum or if they are mixed with other metals like gold rings are? If they are pure then maybe the makeup of the stone crown raised the VDI more, as that ring doesn't look any wider than the two man's rings my friend has found.