Got out a bit more with this coil.
Got a nice gilt button yesterday and a cufflink. The button is from Benedict & Burnham, of Waterbury, Connecticut. Apparently circa 1834-1843 with that backmark, going from some info I found on the net.
Don't know who made the cufflink, but it looks old too. Also managed to retrieve all 3 pieces of it from the hole. It definitely cleaned up a lot better than I had thought, before cleaning you couldn't even tell there was a design. Looks like it might have a bit of silver plating.
I also made another VERY odd find lately, which I'll post separately, probably tomorrow, as it's really late. I'm talking REALLY weird.
So far, I think it's a good coil. You're not going to dig a coin at a foot with it, but it still gets reasonable depth on larger items. Got a bowl from a large iron spoon at almost 10". I think the deepest coin I've found with it so far has been about 6-ish, but that's on a penny.
I've certainly succeed in sniffing a few more conductive items out from around iron with it.
That being said, the fact that I didn't get more than I did speaks well for how well the 10x12 does in trash for a coil of that size.
Plan on digging plenty of nail falses with it though if you're trying to go for iffy stuff in iron. Nails can sound really good from the right angle with this coil. Turning 90 degrees makes the signal go away most (but not all of the time)
That being said, I still dig most of those just because it might be a deep coin that's in between iron.
...Which has taken quite a bit of dedication at the iron infested area I've been working lately.
The grass was stripped off in past of the area as part of construction.
The ground is bone dry as a result, and hard packed and full of rocks. I'm well over 200 pounds, and even *standing* on the shovel blade isn't enough to get it to go into the ground there most of the time, I kind of have to hack away at it and then pry with most of my weight on the thing.
Got a nice gilt button yesterday and a cufflink. The button is from Benedict & Burnham, of Waterbury, Connecticut. Apparently circa 1834-1843 with that backmark, going from some info I found on the net.
Don't know who made the cufflink, but it looks old too. Also managed to retrieve all 3 pieces of it from the hole. It definitely cleaned up a lot better than I had thought, before cleaning you couldn't even tell there was a design. Looks like it might have a bit of silver plating.
I also made another VERY odd find lately, which I'll post separately, probably tomorrow, as it's really late. I'm talking REALLY weird.
So far, I think it's a good coil. You're not going to dig a coin at a foot with it, but it still gets reasonable depth on larger items. Got a bowl from a large iron spoon at almost 10". I think the deepest coin I've found with it so far has been about 6-ish, but that's on a penny.
I've certainly succeed in sniffing a few more conductive items out from around iron with it.
That being said, the fact that I didn't get more than I did speaks well for how well the 10x12 does in trash for a coil of that size.
Plan on digging plenty of nail falses with it though if you're trying to go for iffy stuff in iron. Nails can sound really good from the right angle with this coil. Turning 90 degrees makes the signal go away most (but not all of the time)
That being said, I still dig most of those just because it might be a deep coin that's in between iron.
...Which has taken quite a bit of dedication at the iron infested area I've been working lately.
The grass was stripped off in past of the area as part of construction.
The ground is bone dry as a result, and hard packed and full of rocks. I'm well over 200 pounds, and even *standing* on the shovel blade isn't enough to get it to go into the ground there most of the time, I kind of have to hack away at it and then pry with most of my weight on the thing.