My F2 one month jewelry display

[REVIER]

The other day I posted about my lucky streak I have going and the 3 gold and 2 honking silver rings I have found in the last 4 weeks.
http://www.findmall.com/read.php?91,1922041
All were found with the F2 and the sniper coil.
4 were found around 2 different basketball courts, one was found in a grass island dividing up a large parking lot at a school...one of my other favorite type of sites to hunt.

My monthly MD club meeting is this Sunday, and the only contest I am allowed to enter at my club meetings till the end of our year in August is best display, since I have already won 5 top coin prizes for coming in first place in other contests.
Best display is voted on by the other members and can only be finds I have dug from the last meeting to the current one.
If I win best display I will get a few free raffle tickets to win prizes at the end of our meeting.

They have a big sheet with clear plastic pockets I could throw these rings into to display them, but I can do better.

I went to my local Savers store, a charity resale shop in the Goodwill vein, and picked out a nice wooden box for $2.99.
A quick trip across the street to Hobby Lobby and I walked out of there with a yard of black cotton fabric and a sheet of Styrofoam...only another couple of bucks, total.

A little work cutting the foam, pressing the rings into it, wrapping it with some of that fabric and cutting a few slits and viola...a new ring display box.
This should look better than just throwing these rings up on the display table, and should get me the votes to win those raffle tickets...I hope.

I might put a graphic of some treasure on the top, or maybe leave the 4 aces since that is a lucky hand and rare, and so is this streak I have going...all with the F2 and the sniper coil.
Still unbelievable to me that this is supposed to be considered a "starter" unit.
I have said in the past I think of it more like a top end unit just missing a few whistles and bells.
Still thinking about getting an F75, but even though there might be a little more info and depth how much more can it find in the jewelry area than my little F2 is sniffing out for me this year?
Be fun to find out, but 6 gold rings and silver rings and chains since the first day of 2013 is my total with it so far, evidently we have learned to communicate very well.

Lots more ideas for display boxes and I already have a ton of stuff so I will post anything else I come up with in the future.

 

[Trailduster]

First I just wanna say, congrats on the aquisitions. That streak is what every one of us wishes to develop our skills into. Kudos.

While I'm not on that level yet. I do feel I have a good grasp on what I can do with my f2 and the sniper or the 8" and I decided this year to bite the bullet and buy a used f70 because I felt like the f2 was not hitting everything it could. Some targets were just so week sounding and iffy. Maybe it is the machine, IDK, but the last couple times I used it, it was hitting quarters like they were dimes, and copper pennies were jumping between scratchy 60's to scratchy high 70's. Just to many vdi numbers for one coin and the machine seemed more reliable when I first bought it. Meh.

Onto the f70, in hopes of getting the "solid tone" tell's to hit with more accuracy and I re-hunted places I thought I killed with the f2 using gridding and slow multi direction runs and I found many "solid" or what my machines extra display shows as "confident" coins and even a silver ring I am 100% sure the f2 missed because it was 4" down and in a grass parking lot island that is only 3'x5' at the widest and the ring was in the 1'x2' end wedge of the island.

In the end...who really knows...just thought I'd share that story. I love my f2, it taught me so much and made my transition to the f70 easier and I can definatly see where the f70 may frustrate absolute new to detecting users. So, I have the f2 as a back up and letting my son use it to learn on.

Man. With your skills REVIER, i'd like to see what you could do with a more high end Fisher. Just glad your not in my neck of the woods. LoL

And best wishes on your club contest. Hopefully pettiness doesn't get in the way of a sure win.

 

[Trailduster]

Although I will say. My luck with rare finds was better with the f2, but that is more location than machine.

3 silver coins, 2 1800's large cents and a late 1800's 6" nickle plated brass bell with the f2.

But, then again, I've found 2 1960's Lesney matchbox vehicles in my yard that were too deep for the f2 to hit.

Moral of the story....dig, dig, dig, and have fun.

 

[mudpuppy]

I'm still laughing about how your banned from all the other contests in the club except this one! Yeah, theres something about the F2 in your hands that I don't think you could improve upon..it must be just the right amount of power to coil for jewelry in the depth range it exists? That unit has really been a gold/silver sniffer for you. I also second what Duster said about you not living anywhere near me either!
Mud

 

[Elton]

n/t

 

[Larry--IndianaHVAC]

Nice Finds! I would say you have that F2 paid for

 

[REVIER]

I'm still laughing about how your banned from all the other contests in the club except this one! Yeah, theres something about the F2 in your hands that I don't think you could improve upon..it must be just the right amount of power to coil for jewelry in the depth range it exists? That unit has really been a gold/silver sniffer for you. I also second what Duster said about you not living anywhere near me either!
Mud

LOL!

I gotta live near somebody!
This is a post from one of my MD club buddies on our local forum after I posted about finding that 5th ring.

"Don't you have some chores to do around the house or maybe some volunteer work?
For the sake of all future generations of metal detecting PLEASE LEAVE SOMETHING!"

Tongue in cheek, but that cracks me up.

My club seems to be one of the better ones out there from what I have read about others, and has been in existence since 1976.
No pettiness here...just a great group of people.

Me and the F2 just do what we do...we just happen to make a great team.
I ain't too bad with the Compadre, either.

 

[REVIER]

Nice Finds! I would say you have that F2 paid for

The F2 and the 3 coils I have for it cost me $255.
The amount of clad and jewelry at melt prices it has found for me has to add up to at least $1500-$2000.
Some of those gold rings are too nice to melt so if I can sell them on the street for a fair retail price it would be more like $3000-$4000.
That ring in my avatar pic alone has been appraised at $1299 retail, and the jeweler said I can ask $700-$800 for that as a decent price on the street.

Yea, the F2 has paid for itself and then some.

 

[ez4sure]

man thats some nice finds just shows you dont need a thousand dollar machine to find the good stuff good job hh

 

[Dwayner]

That's amazing. Great work. Wish I could do that with my f2.
A great machine. I still use my f2 when I do tot lots. Give the omega a break.