What kind of signal will i get with a gold tennis braclet Sov GT ?

[deepdiger60]

Once again i will be looking on a private beach for a very expensive tennis braclet a lady lost late last Fall at night a day before a big storm hit us , this time i have the 180 meter built in my Sov GT box iam going to try all metal fixed this time , my question is will the Sov give off a good signal on a thin 18K braclet ? and what numbers can i expect to look for ? according to the lady it has more diamonds in it then gold her x gave it to her as a gift from Tiffany,s by the way she knows he got it on sale for 8000.00 !!!! the beach is very coarse white sand mostly tiny beach pebbles with white sand 50-50 mix like all the beaches out here this will be my 3rd attempt to find it .Thanks for any help Jim
By the way she said if i find i will be eat ting lunch free for the rest of my life she works for the best hero shop for 40 miles around !!!

 

[bootyhoundpa]

i dont believe you will get a very good signal and if you do it probably will have to be shallow.....i found 2 of them 2 years ago when they drained a local lake down...1 was an eye find and the other was only an inch or two deep....i did some field testing with them prior to cashing them in and wasnt very impressed with the signal....although they did sound better than the gold chain i found at the same spot which only gave me the tiniest little chirp ....you might get a decent signal if the braclet is round and doesnt have a gap ....... if they can narrow the search area down and the area is not too trashy i would dig all signals and even dig the nulls.....good luck......

 

[JimmyCT]

Hi Deep,

If you are going to using all all-metal, the meter will not work. The meter only works in DISC. I am not sure where this thin gold bracelet is going to show up ( providing you go with DISC mode ) You should have no problems finding this bracelet with the GT. I believe the question should be: where will this bracelet hit on the scale of the meter should you use disc? Funny thing is, Gold comes in all over - check out the pic of my DTI reference chart. Look at where gold is found in ID # (s) So my advice to you, Which ever mode you search in, bring a long-handled scoop and start digging! lol I went to a beach back in Jan 2012 and was scanning along in DISC and received a signal that jumped from 156/158 up to 165. I said to myself, "self, this is an odd signal... now dig that thing up." Sure enough I found a silver .925 toe ring.(pictured) I wish you the best of luck in recovering the tennis bracelet! - Jim

Once again i will be looking on a private beach for a very expensive tennis braclet a lady lost late last Fall at night a day before a big storm hit us , this time i have the 180 meter built in my Sov GT box iam going to try all metal fixed this time , my question is will the Sov give off a good signal on a thin 18K braclet ? and what numbers can i expect to look for ? according to the lady it has more diamonds in it then gold her x gave it to her as a gift from Tiffany,s by the way she knows he got it on sale for 8000.00 !!!! the beach is very coarse white sand mostly tiny beach pebbles with white sand 50-50 mix like all the beaches out here this will be my 3rd attempt to find it .Thanks for any help Jim
By the way she said if i find i will be eatting lunch free for the rest of my life she works for the best hero shop for 40 miles around !!!

 

[deepdiger60]

Thanks all this looks like a dig all hunt i know exactlly where she was on the beach so that narrows it down , by the way i keep hearing that the 180 meter will not work in all metal but mine does in both all metal and disc. fixed and track it always has Joe,s 180 meter might be differant . Jim

 

[JimmyCT]

Jim.....this is Jim lol

Question...maybe more of a confirmation, so if you scan over a silver / copper coin in all-metal you get a reading of 180? or if you scanned over a nickel you would get a reading of 146? (At least this is where a jefferson nickel would show up for me) - Jim

 

[deepdiger60]

Jim.....this is Jim lol

Question...maybe more of a confirmation, so if you scan over a silver / copper coin in all-metal you get a reading of 180? or if you scanned over a nickel you would get a reading of 146? (At least this is where a jefferson nickel would show up for me) - Jim

Yes in all metal i just tryed it with a silver dime i got a 180 reading also a large cent copper 180, with a bufflo nickle i got a 145 on the meter in both disc. and all metal that is way i could never understand what some people meant there meters would not work in all metal ? mine does Jim

 

[Neil]

Jim are you getting different tones in the all metal mode as well? Ive never seen one of the minelab/sunray meters work in all metal but then again Ive never used the type of meter you have pictured. It would be a good advantage to have the meter work in all metal.

Depending on how "thin" that bracelet is and the shape/size of the links its made of, you should be looking for something in the foil to nickle range I would say.

 

[deepdiger60]

Jim are you getting different tones in the all metal mode as well? Ive never seen one of the minelab/sunray meters work in all metal but then again Ive never used the type of meter you have pictured. It would be a good advantage to have the meter work in all metal.

Depending on how "thin" that bracelet is and the shape/size of the links its made of, you should be looking for something in the foil to nickle range I would say.

All though the meter works in all metal i only get different tones in disc. mode kind of hard to tell the difference between a nickle and a dime in all metal at least the tones some say they can hear the difference . Jim

 

[JimmyCT]

WOW now this is a feature I could come to love: meter readings in all-metal. That is cool. Thanks for sharing the info - Jim

Jim are you getting different tones in the all metal mode as well? Ive never seen one of the minelab/sunray meters work in all metal but then again Ive never used the type of meter you have pictured. It would be a good advantage to have the meter work in all metal.

Depending on how "thin" that bracelet is and the shape/size of the links its made of, you should be looking for something in the foil to nickle range I would say.

All though the meter works in all metal i only get different tones in disc. mode kind of hard to tell the difference between a nickle and a dime in all metal at least the tones some say they can hear the difference . Jim

 

[Critterhunter]

Wow, never heard of the meter working in All Metal. Don't see how it could because there isn't any output from the control box in that mode as far as I know? If you are still getting tones (?) in all metal then you're still in disc. What machine are you using?

Depending on how fine the gold is on that bracelet it may only read in the iron range. For that reason I'd hunt in all metal. Try all metal and PP mode and see which one you seem to prefer. PP might have a more pronounced response to it. Besides just fine gold reading lower and maybe into the iron range, not sure if all metal or PP will give a better response to fine chains then disc. Anybody ever test that?

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

I would abandoned the GT and go with a older model VLF analog machine. While I have found gold bracelets with the GT / Excalibur they had pretty good size/weight to them. I did a non scientific test with three machines I had on hand. GT/Excal/Compass XP Pro and 6 gold chains from neck through bracelets. The XP Pro heard all but there tiniest of them. The GT and Excalibur only heard one large 18K 15 gram mans bracelet. Both in discriminate and all metal. All were open, bunched, loose,or tied in knots. The results were different when they were close in a loop! Da! What you need is a beep and dig all detector to find it! Not know your location but the Last storm that hit the east coast devastated the beaches. While we enjoyed a few days of some hard pan action, I beleive that almost anything in the top 10 ft of loose sand got washed off the beach here in Central Jersey.
We needed to jump 8 to 10 feet down to the beaches there was red clay holding targets. each tide brought 5 to 8 inches back and we have had west winds for 6 months allowing only lighter stuff to come back.
I find about 300 in clad durring the winter months along with about half my gold rings. I have about 50 bucks in clad and and just found my first two gold rings and have put many more hrs then normal put in! I sure wish you sucess and good luck.
BCNJ

 

[deepdiger60]

BCNJ iam beginning to see that the GT wont pick up small gold i tried today again this bracelet has more ice then gold so iam told by the owner my next step is take out my DFX to the beach with the SEF coil now if that don't find it i guess it is gone in someones pocket like i said in a earlier post she showed me the spot she was at , with the DFX i have picked up very small gold toe rings and earrings . What we need here on the ocean side of this thumb i live on is a big blow and knock off a few feet of piled up sand it,s long over due .I would give up a weeks pay to hunt a beach that i had to drop down 8 feet to the shore line Thanks for the help.... Jim

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Jim toe rings and earrings are huge compaired to one link of a tennis bracelet, or better yet the clasps is probally the biggest part! When I saw the Blisstool on the beach I was very impressed with the abilty to find very small braceles. I am waiting for mine Blisstool to come in on the 15th!
BCNJ

 

[JimmyCT]

Hi BC NJ,

I was visualizing a solid bracelet not the little links that wrap around. I do agree with you that the GT does not pick up "link" jewelry very well. In fact, I was down right shocked with what I witnessed at my local park. This piece of jewelry on the right is junk jewlery and was lying on top of the ground. I didn't see it until I heard the noise coming in on my headphones. I looked down and couldn't believe the erratic reading of the jewelry. I kept on scanning over listening to the signal and came to the reality, I would of never dug the signal. It was like a piece of iron falsing under my coil. The little ring next to it, came in nice and solid and was a sure diggable tone. (dime for size reference) I hear great things about this Blisstool and I wish you great luck with it. - HH - Jim

Jim toe rings and earrings are huge compaired to one link of a tennis bracelet, or better yet the clasps is probally the biggest part! When I saw the Blisstool on the beach I was very impressed with the abilty to find very small braceles. I am waiting for mine Blisstool to come in on the 15th!
BCNJ

 

[Critterhunter]

Rings, even very thin and small ones, will hit just fine on the GT as I tested over 100 gold rings a friend found digging everything with his Excal water hunting, so it wasn't a biased pool of only digging certain signals. It's the fact that the ring is round and intact that makes even real thin ones hit hard. But yea, chains and such are a problem for any Minelab. However, somebody told me they found a gold chain with the 12x10 on their GT that they didn't think they ever would have found with the S-12 coil they normaly beach hunt with, so they scanned the chain and for some reason it did in fact hit harder on the 12x10 than the S-12. My 12x10 does seem more sensitive to tiny stuff than the stock 10" coil, although that coil still had very impressive ability in that respect. The coil can make somewhat of a difference. I bet the S-5 or 6" Excelerator will hit harder on small stuff than a bigger coil but I haven't tested that.

For sure I'd use the DFX for finding that bracelet as they have much smaller gold sensitivity. I've owned some machines such as Tesoros that had real good fine gold jewlery sensitivity and the only problem was they hit hard on small blobs of foil. Hated digging that stuff. Also made the machine more noisy in trashy areas. I think I'd rather have a machine that makes small foil and other junk sound bad so I don't end up chasing that stuff when park hunting. Beach hunting is a different story, of course.

 

[deepdiger60]

Jim toe rings and earrings are huge compaired to one link of a tennis bracelet, or better yet the clasps is probally the biggest part! When I saw the Blisstool on the beach I was very impressed with the abilty to find very small braceles. I am waiting for mine Blisstool to come in on the 15th!
BCNJ

I dont know about that the DFX picks up on very small gold targets with SEF 10x12 i was surprised , that Blisstool is a good machine which one you getting ? LTC64X v3 with stock coil or the 15" for beaches , i picked up this thin 18k chain last year in about 8 inches of wet sand dont know what the ring is it,s wore off inside . Jim

 

[fredo]

nice but there is a ring....so you get the ring not the chain

 

[Buried Crap NJ]

Jim toe rings and earrings are huge compaired to one link of a tennis bracelet, or better yet the clasps is probally the biggest part! When I saw the Blisstool on the beach I was very impressed with the abilty to find very small braceles. I am waiting for mine Blisstool to come in on the 15th!
BCNJ

I dont know about that the DFX picks up on very small gold targets with SEF 10x12 i was surprised , that Blisstool is a good machine which one you getting ? LTC64X v3 with stock coil or the 15" for beaches , i picked up this thin 18k chain last year in about 8 inches of wet sand dont know what the ring is it,s wore off inside . Jim

If that ring was on the chain you picked it up and not the chain, take the ring off open the chain, it looks big enough to hear with either the GT or Excal. Closed chains are found, open are not. Which I think there are more broke open ones than closed?
LTC64X v3 with stock coil if they ever clear customs they have been hung up for about two weeks!