Garrett Goldmaster 24K as a coin / jewelry / relic machine

[GotAU?]

I assume you are in Idaho? If you are ever in Southern California, call Jim and see if you can get training with it. You got a really good deal, when I bought mine, it was at the standard Garret price, but Jim added a lot of freebies plus the training. His wife also made cookies for us!

If you haven’t seen it, check out the 24k spud diggers video. Also, Garrett has a lot of really good videos on the 24K, so definitely check those out. Contact me if you need any help also.

 

[Odanscoils]

If you’re still thinking about a 24k, Jim McCulloch was recently selling his inventory of new Garrett 24Ks with the full 3-year Garrett warranty in unopened new boxes for $500 shipped. I’m not sure how many he has left. He’s selling off his inventory and is a Garrett dealer. I don’t think he’ll mind me putting his phone number here as he’s already put it online elsewhere. 760-401-7514, and he doesn’t have a website. Really nice guy, spent an entire afternoon of his own time with me showing how to use it when I bought mine.

And how are you liking the 24 k ?

 

[GotAU?]

And how are you liking the 24 k ?

Hi, Odanscoils. I haven’t used it for Park hunting for coins or jewelry, I prospect for gold and have found small bits with it. But as things like hoops and other types of gold jewelry make it difficult for other machines, the 24 case should pick those up very well. When I tried it in a really bad place, it didn’t like the black sand, but there are settings that can help with that which I was fairly new when I first tried it. That was the worst of all places I’ve ever been, the machine has been very good in most others.

I also have a Manticore, with which side some nice pieces of gold. Again where I take it is pretty mild, but it seems to do pretty well and I haven’t compared it with a 24K, but I kind of it may be a little better in certain places due to it being multi frequency , but for someone starting out, the 24K is a lot of detector, and costs 1/4 less that the Manticore.

Garrett/Whites Goldmaster 24K is definitely a VLF. It's single frequency 48 kHz so it is geared for smaller target gold prospecting.

It has Whites XGB ground balance tech which is really good if the soil isn't too mineralized whether magnetite or salt. Not the best choice for saltwater beaches. It is not waterproof either. I would pick a Vortex VX7/9 for saltwater beaches.

Does not have wireless audio or an internal rechargeable battery. It uses 8 AA batteries. Rechargeables work great and it comes stock from Garrett with 8 rechargeable AAs and a good charger.

It has a one tone threshold based VCO audio mode for prospecting with a ferrous/non ferrous chance indicator and displays numbers to go with that ferrous/non ferrous chance indicator. If your ground is not very mineralized, those displayed numbers can work as target IDs but they will up average the target IDs of low and mid conductor targets a lot the deeper the target.

The Garrett/Whites 24K also has a two tone discrimination ferrous/non ferrous audio option which can be used for gold prospecting, micro jewelry hunting or whatever kind of detecting needed. It reminds me of the original MXT two tone audio with low iron tone, mid threshold tone and a higher non ferrous tone.

The threshold tone can also be turned down to minimum level where it basically can't be heard for those that don't like a live threshold tone.

I used mine for sand and bark playground, freshwater beach and volleyball court micro jewelry hunting where digging it all was the approach. It works fine for that. The ground where I detect is too mineralized for general coin hunting using a single frequency VLF like the 24K especially if I want reliable target IDs for accurate information so I can selective dig going for deeper coins or jewelry. Again, I would pick a Vortex VX7/9 for deeper coins, jewelry or relics. The Vortex simultaneous multi frequency tech makes it much more versatile and usable for a wide range of detecting scenarios. The VX9 is actually pretty good for gold prospecting too.

The Goldmaster 24K was built by Whites using the MX7 form factor. It has the nicest color display currently made in my opinion and thankfully does not do what the MX7/MXT did and display what the target is in words. At least where I detect, the MX7/MXT would display US quarter for just about every target if it was deeper than 3". That got pretty old thinking I was digging a quarter and it was actually a small piece of foil , small can slaw or a normal pull tab........... Garrett went over it carefully, upgraded the coil quality and released it almost exactly as Whites made it. It even has the Whites emblem molded into the plastic on the back of the control box housing.

It is the only detector that currently Garrett makes which is directly from their Whites purchase.

That says a lot.

Awesome detector for the right places and uses.

Hi, this is a good review of the 24K. Whites used to sell a rechargeable battery pack for their original version of the 24K. It did have a long life out in the field, and I was able to get a fairly good one from a user on detectorprospector. Anyone wanting to use a VLF at the beach, as mentioned it won’t work well on salt and wet sand, but it will work well on dry sand. As for being waterproof, there is a version of the 24K that is waterproof and designed to be taken underwater.

 

[GotAU?]

Thanks, you provided feedback for me on the now closed DP forum (was idahospud2). Yes, in fact, I ordered one from him (said he had 3 left), and it should arrive this next Monday. Looking forward to it.

Oh, one other thing when you get your Garrett, make sure to charge the batteries for a day, even before you use it . It takes a while the first time around, but then after that, it does pretty well. It takes 8 batteries and the charger can do them all at the same time, it’s actually a nice little charger and both the charger and the batteries are included. It should last you most of the day, but I use spares since summertime days are long and I always make the best of daylight as it’s a long drive to where I go.

Using a wired headphones is fine, but as for it not having wireless, there are lots of low latency Bluetooth transmitters you can plug into it. You’re going to need a couple things to do that though, and I’ll post them here once I look them up. It would be a right angle quarter inch male to 1/8 inch female adapter as the plug port is on the rear of the machine and I like using the right angle adapter to help keep the plug from bending over so easily, the other thing is a transmitter of some sort, I recommend the Avantree relay. As for headphones, I use the discontinued Avantree Taurus neck speaker system, as I prefer, not wearing headphones when it’s hot weather. But there are a lot of other types that are like it and there’s a lot of wireless Bluetooth headphones you could use as well. The speaker on the 24K is decent, but you really should get some sort of a good speaker system closer to your ears.

 

[GotAU?]

Sorry to be writing so much! Just one other thing, go to Steve’s Garrett and White’s 24K review Page and take notes on all the information there, it’s really good and he has the links on there to the videos I talked about. Do it soon because he implied in his most recent post that the site might close altogether, depending on ad funding.

Garrett Goldmaster 24K

Garrett Goldmaster 24K metal detector features and specifications with user reviews.

www.detectorprospector.com

Also here about the White’s 24k (it’s the same exact detector except for the color)

White's Goldmaster 24K

White's Electronics Goldmaster 24K metal detector specifications review with additional information by Steve Herschbach

www.detectorprospector.com