SILVER JEWELRY: Sterling Ring w. 2 Diamonds
Sterling Figaro Necklace
925 Italy Silver Bracelet
15 Gram Silver Horse .980 Silver Rings - (16)
Silver Baby Ring - Sterling
Silver Ear-Ring (4)
Antique Silver Ear-Ring (3)
Sterling Silver Crucifix
Sterling Horse Pendant
Sterling Watch Band Chunk
Sterling St. Christopher (2)
Sterling Silver Spoon
Silver Baby Spoon
Silver Ring Scrap
Wheat Pennies: 100+
OLD COINS:
1887 Indian Head Penny
188? Indian Head Penny 1892 Mexican Penny 1908 Indian Head Penny
1889 V Nickel
1897 V Nickel
1901 V Nickel
1906 V Nickel
1916 V Nickel
1915-D Buffalo Nickel
1934 Buffalo Nickel
1925 Buffalo Nickel
1927 Buffalo Nickel
1936 Buffalo Nickel
19?? Buffalo Nickel (5)
TOKENS (30+)
Dollar Coins (20+)
Canadian Clad (10+)
CLAD:
$400+ A SEASON?
METAL DETECTING GEAR
LESCHE DIGGER
GARRETT PRO-POINTER
MINELAB X-TERRA 705
I saw something in a video the other day I found very interesting. An X-terra 705 user out in the fields looking for coins and relics. In normal discrimination / multi-tone mode, when they found a deep hit, they would one touch change to prospecting mode. Prospecting audio seemed to provide extra insight on the sizing of deep targets. Not exactly a waste of time when it's one touch of the thumb. Quite clever I think.
Des Dunne from Minelab uses X-terra prospecting mode audio to hunt for small coins in iron infested areas.
You want to talk about being the king of the tot lot. Imagine this set up. X-Terra 705 with 18.75khz 6" DD coil, micro detecting the tot lot, one touch prospecting mode. If you live in a modern area where there are little or no old coins, your only real choice is to seek jewelry. Modern areas = tons of modern coins. The jewelry seeker is paid $2.50+ an hour in clad coins to dig foil, can shred and pull tabs. This while hoping for the next gold ring. It's a proven system.
If the X-terra 305 with small six inch 18.75khz coil pulls eight inch deep buffalo nickels and pull tab rings, just imagine what the 705 will do.
DEPTH DISCRIMINATION - Minelab E-TRAC with six inch DD coil vs. X-Terra with six inch DD 18.75khz coil. Six inch deep silver dime and six inch deep small gold ring. The E-TRAC will be blasting your ears on the silver dime, with a subtle peep on the small gold ring. The X-terra will be blasting your ears on the small gold ring, with a subtle peep on the silver dime. Now consider the advantage to the X-Terra 705 user that knows there are no old coins in their area. They could be the jewelry master.
You hear about these E-TRAC users using two tone ferrous mode. X-terra 705 is 28 tone ferrous. Iron is a low tone with higher tones assigned to each conductive scale segment. Many successful detector users like to listen to the enemy. Iron. 705 does this and provides all the coin tones at the same time. Adding to that, X-Terra has the Explorer style flute like silver tones, with low tone for iron, ferrous tones. You can not do this on E-TRAC.
Adding to that, all Minelab X-terra have Fisher fast recovery speed. They do not fall in to that "you have to go slow with a Minelab" scenario.
More good news for the modern area jewelry seeker. There is little competition in your trade. Very few have the gumption to dig foil, can shred and pulls tabs. Those that dare will dig a few pulls tabs and skip the foil. If anything they are clearing out coins and trash that is masking the gold jewelry they will ignore. FBS / Low Frequency Plecostomus.
The X-Terra 18khz modern area jewelry seeker has another advantage, that helps to make up for digging all that trash. Unlike the coin seeker, they don't have to worry about that dreaded iron false. Iron false effects every metal detector on the market. Foot deep rusty iron bits that sound like deep coins. High tone chirp. Not even on the plate of the modern area jewelry seeker.
A Minelab X-Terra is not the only high frequency rig to get this job done. One could do the same thing with AT Gold, G2, Gold Bug Pro etc. However, if the X-Terra user runs in to a rare chance to hunt an old property for deep silver coins, they could slap on a 3khz coil.
METAL DETECTING THIS OLD HOUSE (Part 3)
More finds from inside the house.
Another respectable selection of finds from the hoarder kingdom. Some gold, silver, coins and a couple relics. What more could one ask for? Space rocks?
The secret of the 1868 Indian Head Penny. In my limited research, it appears to be a semi key date coin. I don't know much about coins. More importantly, that coin was said to be dug in the garden while planting vegetables. The woman that lived there found it. (RIP)
Once again very important to point out the context, these finds are in very challenging places inside the home of a hoarder. The place is not filthy. It's just a matter of going through hundreds of old boxes. One room has been cleared out to act as a processing area for boxes.
No, we haven't found the space rock yet. (disappointing) However there was one other good find. In the shed was a nice spade shovel, just like the one I broke in episode one.
Must find space rock. Stay Tuned.
UNDERWATER TESORO COMPADRE BRAINSTORM(Freshwater Wading)
The Compadre's control box is the size of a couple small jello boxes. It's already quite water resistant, nearly splash proof. Imagine the places you could put the Compadre's control box is it had a nine foot coil cable.
Below are multiple solutions for using a Compadre that has had five feet added to the coil cable. Don't try this at home.
1: Put Compadre control box in "WaterProof Fanny Pack". Put the control box in waterproof fanny pack, coil and headphone cables coming out of zipper end of pack. Snug zipper to cables exiting the bag at end of zipper travel. Sling waterproof fanny pack over your shoulder. In the rare case you trip and fall completely underwater for a few seconds, only a few drops will make it in that zipper opening where the cables come out. No threat to already water resistant Compadre.
1.5: They also make waterproof back packs.
2: Fasten Compadre control head to the the right suspender on chest waders. Control head sits on your shoulder like a parrot. In the rare case you tripped and submerged the control head for a second, that is not enough time for water to seep in the a water resistant / splash proof device. This worst case scenario while wading.
3: Get a set of those $25 generic Garrett metal detecting headphones. Big cans. Fasten the Compadre control box to one of the cans. POV / Go-Pro style. Same as above, if your head goes under for more than a second, Compadre control box is the least of your worries.
The above is a freshwater wading metal detecting operation. Wading up to the waist in water at freshwater beaches and creeks. With the neutral soil part in my part of the country, you can't make a VLF metal detector to false if you tried. Not in the water, not anywhere. Ground balance always ends up at default no matter what you do. Depth is always just short of an air test.
Compadre is a jewelry magnet, pulling those thing gold chains other detectors miss. Compadre barely alerts on measured nine inch deep nickel. E-TRAC with small coil barely alerts on nine inch deep nickel. For what Compadre lacks in raw depth , it makes up for in sensitivity to exactly what the jewelry seeker wants. GOLD! Legendary Tesoro discrimination goes without saying..
Don't try this at home. It's just a brainstorm. Making the coil cable longer might void your warranty. My Compadre has paid for it's self twice over in clad. I would not hesitate to buy another one.
Word on the street is those new $200 underwater metal detectors are junk. A thousand dollar underwater metal detector is useless without the proper recovery tool. A Freshwater water scoop / stainless steel with pointed lip is $150+. The detector and scoop are worthless without chest waders to get you in the water. Chest waders = $75+. This means you are pushing $250 in tools before even thinking about the metal detector.
TESTING THE WATERS
You go out and buy a Garrett Infinium to detect freshwater beaches and creeks, only to find you can't use a pulse detector in these areas. Iron Infested. Or perhaps you buy a metal detector with a hard wired big coil, only to find out your targeted areas demand an eight inch or smaller coil. With underwater metal detectors, you can easily buy the wrong one.
BUT, if first someone took the mighty Compadre in there, they could do reconnaissance to determine what expensive detector is needed. Find out how much iron is out there. Trash target census.
Or perhaps one could take a Compadre in the water to find there is absolutely nothing there. No goods. Better to find out the easy way.
It would not surprise me if the mighty Compadre was all I need in these environments. I'll likely go the waterproof black fanny pack method. Imagine how amazing the Compadre's rod and saucer plate coil will move through the water. The least amount of resistance possible. Virtually weightless in the water. Pinpointing is as easy as knowing the target is under the white circle. Very rarely does the Compadre have one chasing a fifteen inch deep can. That's the benefit of the low power circuit detector like this. Powerful enough to go reasonably deep, but tame enough to silence deep garbage.
Why not just put the Compadre control box in a waterproof box? Because my projects are on the cheap and easy with clever function. If the coil cable was longer, one could put the Compadre control box in the top bib pocket of their chest waders. This is not deep sea detecting or hitting the knarly surf.
Finally, I have the cash to buy a thousand dollar water machine, but, I have faith this little project is going to rock! You will all be sorry when I am digging gold rings in waist deep water with a Tesoro Compadre. (funny / joke) At the very least I'll be having fun.
METAL DETECTING THIS OLD HOUSE (part 2)
More indoor finds from inside the old house.
No, that is not the meteorite I was talking about in the posting below. My suspicions tell me this piece is a big chunk of iron slag. It's heavy like iron, reading like iron on all metal detectors. However, so do meteorites. Bring in the experts!
The class ring and one of the wedding rings will be made in to a memorial and sent to one of the close relatives. All the other bits go in my collection.
Keep in mind, this is going through the house of an old hoarder. Gold rings in one box out of fifty boxes of papers. Treasure hunting through mounds of trash to get to the small goods. This why it's treasure topic worthy. Awesome winter project.
No metal detecting the property this time out. The yard is frozen. I tried the cellar floor. Twice as infested as the yard with zero conductive scale hits.
We also discovered there is no use breaking out the walls behind the medicine cabinets etc, as they are all modern revisions. This compared to the house's late 1800's history. If anything I need to bust out the floor moldings on the edges of the old floors, thinking coins may have slid under the moldings. Once again, this property is days from being red tagged. Everything in the house is going down with the demolition. It's pick the goods and get out while you can. Soon it will not be legal to go inside, even if you own the land.
What you seen in the above video is the product of going through a room for of boxes of hoarded junk. About six hours of picking. Nothing is organized. It's like picking through Fred Sanford.'s house.
Finally, I am not including these finds in my metal detecting treasures. The inspiration for this was from "American Pickers" and some of these storage shows. A one time thing. Quite interesting going through a "hoarder locker". As on the tv show, we found gold in piles of junk. I also picked up a nice floor jack. But where is that mysterious space rock? And will I make it back to the crater when it thaws? Stay Tuned.
THE GREAT COIN HALO MYTH
"Coin halo". Also called "halo effect". The theory is, when an old coin starts to decay in the ground, some of the metal in the coin starts to leach out in the soil surrounding the coin. The extra metal in the soil surrounding the coin, increasing the detection area of the coin. This supposedly making it a bit easier to detect older deep coins. A coin supposedly has to be buried for a while to develop this halo effect. Hogwash.
You can not add or take away from matter. Matter can only be transformed. In this case, the matter of the coin decaying and seeping out in to the surrounding soil, supposedly making it's detection area bigger. Sure we see a bit of color left in the dirt by some old green and orange coins. Patina dust. Put your detector and pin pointer on the green color left in the dirt clod by the coin. You can't detect it. Why?
Consider this. Let's weigh the deep coin that was supposedly found because it had a coin halo. Let's say for example it was one twentieth of a gram light, because the metal leached out in to surrounding soil. Now get yourself one twentieth of a gram of coin metal powder and put it around the coin. That is parts per thousands levels of metal dust around the coin. There is no way this can add to the detection area of the coin.
Now we know incredibly rusty, bigger iron objects will leave quite a bit of rusty halo dust behind in the soil. You still can't detect it after the target is gone. Even if the target is pulled nicely, leaving concentrated iron dust intact. Anything adding to the detection area of the target would have to be strong enough to be detected after the target is gone.
OK, so what if metals already in the soil wanted to migrate to the coin, causing the halo effect around the coin? Iron powder? Why does it seek out the coin to surround it? Somehow making the coins detection area bigger with a so called halo effect? Metal powders in the soil, seeking out to surround coins? That can't be it.
Is there some chemical reaction going on, ionizing particles that generate an electromagnetic field around the coin. That can't be it.
Argument: "The halo is broken up when the coin is recovered". (popular opinion) Wrong. If it makes the target bigger with a halo of metallic soil around it, it would be detectable. Victorian age patina powder. Your detector would not detect a bucket full of so called halo powder. Even if it did, the membrane of halo powder around a coin is only as thick as a soap bubble shell. This does not add to the surface / detection area of the coin.
How did this myth start? Detector users likely saw green and orange patina dust in the soil the deep coins were touching. "By golly that's the coin halo effect". This myth likely started decades ago.
By default, older coins are deeper. By default, many older coins have patina dust on them. This is where they tried to suggest the coins were found deeper, seeing a thin layer of patina dust on the dirt that had contact with the coin.
Most metal detector user's coin test gardens are in their back yard. Lots of electrics to silently limit depth of detection. Backyards are often filled with devil dirt. Field dirt / construction dirt. This dirt is hard to penetrate with any detector on the market. This has them thinking the max depth of their detector is for example, five inches. Then when they go out in some clean soil in an old park with no power lines, digging a foot deep coin with green powder on the dirt clod, they mistake the patina powder as the source of this incredible depth. Then thinking the patina powder surrounded the coin in the earth. If not the visual patina powder, then some magical process.
I must admit, I bought the coin halo myth until something had me pondering it beyond a passing thought. It sounds like a good concept at face value. Many great minds can believe the coin halo myth, simply because they never took a moment to ponder it. This makes it quite an interesting subject. I am not out to mock anyone that believes it, as I know they have not yet pondered it beyond accepting something that actually sounds reasonable.
Some of the coin halo myth might also originate from the old "treasure aura" concept. The idea that metals that have been in the ground for a long time have an aura around them. The aura supposedly increasing the piece of metal's size, so it is more easily detected by unconventional means. Since there is zero scientific value to these claims, believers explain the aura as something modern physics / science does not understand. i.e. Dowsing.
In the first hundreds of hours of metal detecting / treasure hunting, the user is grasping for straws, looking for any way possible to control the process of finding good targets. They want to call out what the target is before they dig it. They want to control the outcome as much as possible. Some will go as far as to believe some sort of spiritualism helped them find a rare target. Some believe in luck or even divine intervention to find good targets.
Activities with many unseen variables are a breeding ground for rackets. The invisible variables and their coincidences often tickle the imagination of the novice treasure hunter. Patina dust turns in to a coin halo. Or even an aura modern science can not explain. It's very easy to get the wrong idea, when hundreds of unseen variables are involved. Wishful thinking plays a great role.
I will close this posting with a perfect example. The other day I stumbled across a metal detecting video. Someone had bought their first metal detector, trying it out for the first time in their back yard. They dug a measured 10 inch deep hole and placed a small gold nugget at the bottom of the hole. This nugget was the size of a fly's wing. They filled in the hole and turned on the metal detector. The mid priced VLF metal detector sounded like it was under power lines with the sensitivity all the way up. i.e. constant false tones. Waving the coil above the ten inch deep gold flake, detector chattering away with false tones, they said, "See, it's detecting the ten inch deep gold nugget just fine". (funny) Bless their heart.
I wasn't much better when I started metal detecting. I thought every newer clad dime in the ground might be silver. I would dig a gold plated or filled item, getting overly excited, thinking it was solid gold. (funny)
METAL DETECTING THIS OLD HOUSE (January 2012)
I've been wanting to metal detect this old house for months. Due to a sudden change of events, I have free run of the entire property. Results were unexpected.
We found gold, silver coins, old coins, foreign coins and a rare token. Worth the fifty mile drive. Too bad the metal detecting part was not as productive.
A mid to late 1800's home purchased by the railroad around 1900. Obvious revisions made to the old house since then. Before the place goes under the wrecking ball, I'm pondering taking a sledge hammer to a few choice walls inside the house. Behind the medicine cabinet and other common in home treasure hot spots. I also feel I am not done detecting the yard, as part of it is frozen.
UPDATE: The wife found a couple boxes of old papers in this house. Inside one of the boxes was a greeting card with the words "I am returning your rings". (Dear John Letter) Taped to the card was a thick 10K gold ring and a thin silver ring. SCORE! A two gold ring day.
Not only that, she also found large gold tooth filling. (1.2 Grams) SCORE!
SPACE ROCKS ! Back in the 1980's a small meteorite hit this property. It left a two foot round, six inch deep crater in the yard. The home owner found a meteorite in the hole and took it in the house. We are still searching for it. I went over the crater with the metal detector, obvious iron in the hole. Thick iron everywhere on the property. I could not dig in the crater as it was frozen solid. Next visit, I'll be pulling the iron out of that crater.
The above is not a fish story. It's been verified by multiple sources. The meteorite pulled from the hole is the "size of a grown man's thumb".
NOTE: Without going in to specifics, this house belonged to a relative on the wife's side of the family. The finds are morally going to the right place. Nobody is going to appreciate them more than I / we do. Nobody is going to display them to as many people as I will. I'm preserving a bit of history without it being a main factor in my agenda. I just want to make videos. One could make more money splitting firewood with a good bow saw.
I can handle the responsibility of taking on someone's coin and trinket collection. Respect for the people that lived in this house. However, when you know that bulldozer is coming, who will be there to pluck the bits that will be lost forever? Especially when it takes both creativity and science to recover them. They can be gone forever or be put on youtube. What is the logical choice?
THE ANGRY OLD GRANDMOTHER
Plain and simple, metal detectors are a magnet for the ignorant. Not the people that operate them, but the people you attract while using them. Self righteous know it alls that make knee jerk assumptions that are always false. It does not matter what you look like, how you dress or what you drive. You could be in your church clothes while just getting out of a brand new SUV, put that metal detector in your hand and some people think you are some kind of monster. This always a big shocker to me, as I thought metal detecting was a technical hobby like ham radio or astronomy. To be persecuted for legally conducting this hobby is one of the strangest things I have ever seen.
I've been doing a lot of detecting in the woods lately to get away from people like this. It saves me from telling them to go jump in a lake. I am detecting in the city park property woods, beautiful day, all alone, pulling some decent finds. While doing this I am always aware of borders, as I access county property records / city maps online. I also keep a sharp eye out for property stakes and fences. One of the rules on the sign in the park is "respect property boundaries". Duly noted.
I am walking out of the woods back towards my car when I get a six inch deep quarter signal. Best signal of the day. Deep, solid silver tones. I'm just about to dig when I hear a voice call out "Hey!, what are you doing there!" It's an angry old woman that owns the house next to the park. Yes mam, how are you? "You are on my property" she says. No mam, as I point towards her property stakes. I am a good thirty feet from her property in the public park / woods area. Have a nice day. She turns around like she is going to leave, then turns back around saying "My property goes beyond those borders". Right there I had a decision to make. Tell her I know she is being dishonest, or simply call it a day and move on.
I ended up bidding her the old "have a good day mam" and walked away. I find it unproductive to try to communicate with people like this. You must address these people like you are a boring customer service representative, that can not be provoked in to showing any kind of emotion.
I walk to the parking lot to get in my car when a nice lady speaks to me. "I heard that mean old woman chase you out of the park" (her giggling and smiling at me). She told me "That old woman tries to chase everyone out of there, she chased me and my dog out of there too". I asked her why this woman does this, as that is city park property. This woman said she also checked on the property, finding the woman is in fact being dishonest. In the end we concluded she tries to chase everyone out because young people go back in the woods to party. That and the fact she is illegally dumping yard waste back there in park areas. We spoke for a few minutes, had some laughs and concluded some things are better left alone.
I have stood up to these types in the past, as they were people walking down the street looking for trouble. I won't get involved in property disputes or arguments with elders. People that buy houses next to parks, then complaining about the park, not a very smart move. Then they spend their life stressing over who is in the park. The poor old lady is stripping years off her life worrying about what others might be doing. If she had any sense, she would buy a metal detector and get out there with me. Much cheaper than the therapy she is going to need, after all the worry pushes her over the edge.
Writing this post is a bit of therapy for me. This old woman took one of my best spots away. Lots of old coins found in the woods area, 50-100 feet from her property. The rest of the woods in that area is bare in comparison. Quite a loss. Although her behavior provides a little content for my blog, which is good for my bottom line. A negative turned to a positive. Had it been a male busy body, that camera would come on in an instant. If people like this want to help me provide entertainment and content, I'll put the camera on them. I would love to catch another meltdown on video. I already have two. When people see that camera come out of the pocket, something in their head snaps.
What about you Swiper? What if someone puts that camera on you? I will start disco dancing. Soaking up the attention. 'Hey look at me", like a person on the street standing behind a tv reporter. That and maybe bust out with a little karaoke singing. Someone desperate to be on tv. Complete backfire. Nobody wants to see someone on video that wants to be on camera. (funny) They want that unexpected emotional meltdown.
Oh well. There will be other hot spots. I guess the irony here is, there is no escape from these nutty people when metal detecting. Welcome to the age of fear. Soon they will be attacking the astronomers and board game players. Anyone enjoying themselves with a quiet hobby must be made in to a monster.
Just think, I gave up riding 150+ mph motorcycles to buy metal detectors. I thought I was entering a safe, quiet, drama free technical hobby. Boy was I wrong. The drama follows you in to the woods.
Several months ago I coined a word for people like this. I call them ROAMERS. A Roamer is a knee jerk reacting , false assuming, jealous, self loathing, paranoid, busy body, know it all, lacking all common sense, that wanders aimlessly looking to police innocent people. Roamers jump to wild conclusions based on their own unfounded fears and paranoia.
In some cases a metal detector user can be turned in to a Roamer. Roamers have attacked them so many times, they take on the same behaviors towards their fellow metal detector users. One example of many, the detector user sees animal holes or golf club divots, instantly jumping to the conclusion it's a careless metal detector user. (witch hunt mentality)
Final Note: Two times in the past people have called law enforcement on me for metal detecting. The first time an Officer stood there talking to me about metal detectors for fifteen minutes, as he was genuinely interested in joining the hobby. He said he was considering the Fisher F75 metal detector. (good choice) The second time someone called the police on me, the police had to come out and tell them to leave me alone. I was instructed by the police officer, and I quote; "You have a good hobby, keep doing what you are doing".
Knowing the law is on my side, I still choose my legal battles carefully. Nothing good can come from arguing with an angry old grandmother.
WATERPROOF / UNDERWATER VIDEO CAMCORDER ON A BUDGET
Today I discovered what I deem one of the hottest deals on the web. It's called the Kodak Mini HD. (refurbished) How does a $35 with free shipping sound?
WHY I USE KODAK CAMCORDERS FOR MY METAL DETECTING VIDEOS - Kodak HD Camcorders have good recording audio! This in some ways more important to me than video quality. Kodak recording / audio quality is clean. No hissing. Nice warm tone / bass. Sensitive enough to hear the birds in the distance, while not be oversensitive to excessive noise. If you record music on a Kodak Camcorder, playback on a system with a sub woofer is quite impressive. Kodak camera recording audio popular with youtube musical instrument jam sessions.
I have been using the Kodak Zx1, shock proof and water resistant camcorder. The Kodak Mini's video is not the same quality as those from the Zx / Zi / PlaySport line, but, for $35 dollars it's well above expectation. Check it out and then go to youtube and watch "kodak mini test". Then check out the underwater tests. Don't forget the sound tests. All impressive.
REFURBISHED:What is refurbished? In my opinion, it's same as new for half price. Perhaps better than new, as it's been back to the factory and confirmed up to spec. Keeping in mind, all the refurbished Kodak cameras I have purchased had new shell. Not one scratch or scuff. As new in box. I could not tell it was refurbished. No signs of use.
I buy a factory refurbished item for half price, beat it up for a year till it no longer works. They all crash and burn. Buy cheap, use and abuse without worry.
My Kodak Zi6 lasted a year with daily abuse. The Kodak Zx1 lasted a year with severe daily abuse. Renting something for sixty dollars or less a year, abusing it in the process. Not a bad deal. For thirty five bucks the Kodak Mini worth it, even if it only lasts six months.
At the very least the Kodak Mini would make a good rain camera. The after the rain metal detecting sessions, where you get muddy fingerprints on your non water resistant camera. Abuse the Kodak Mini in mud and water and then dunk it in the sink to clean.
UNDERWATER USE TIP : When the camera comes out of the water, a small amount of water remains in the microphone hole. This muffles the recording sound till it drains out. Speed the process up by tilting / shaking the water out of the tiny hole. It just takes a second or two. Then restart your recording for normal recording audio.
METAL DETECTOR HEADPHONES BUDDY
That headphones cable gets on my nerves. That cable often gets in the way of digging. Even with mild use, the so called heavy duty headphone cables can quickly develop a bad connection near the connector. This can reduce a $125 set of headphones to cans of crackly audio. All that flopping around and tugging on the cable, nearly pulling the headphones off your head. It's enough stress to end your hunt early. (less finds)
1/4" STEREO COUPLER
1/4" STEREO 5 FT. CABLE
- BUILD -
CABLE LENGTH: Five feet of cable seems to be the perfect length if you are six foot or under, using a hand tool. For the relic hunter always using the shovel, a six foot extension cable may better suit your needs.
When this $6 stereo audio cable crackles out, I am going to replace it with a six foot, stereo, quarter inch guitar cable. The cable I used in the video is not the best visual representation of performance. See "1/4 inch extension cable" below.
THE BELT CLIP: Make sure you use tensile strength metal for the belt clip. For example a stainless steel money clip, where the clip is very tight fitting on the belt or pants. This stability is key to the overall function. It keeps the coupler level. This keeps the thicker cable directed behind you, out of the way if you walk backwards. Don't skimp on the clip.
- ADVANTAGES -
USE METAL DETECTOR HEADPHONES BUDDY ON ALL YOUR METAL DETECTORS
LONGEVITY: Now your $135 metal detector headphones can stay like new. No more crackly connections from endless headphone cable pulling. The stereo extension cable can be replaced for little money.
STRESS FACTOR: The added stress of that headphone cable tugging, flopping around and getting in the way. Headphone cable getting wrapped around the detector stand. Being tethered to the metal detector by your skull produces an uneasy feeling. The list of negatives is long. Metal Detector Headphones Buddy rids you of all these nightmares.
1/4" STEREO EXTENSION CABLE: Thicker audio cable is rigid, always looping back and staying out of the way. Like a musician playing guitar on stage, they can walk backwards without stepping on the cord. Metal Detector Headphones Buddy works on the same principle. The thicker, more rigid cable stays horizontal longer out the back of the coupler and metal detector. This keeps the cable free floating in the air behind you at all times.
IMPORTANT NOTE : The video above is a dramatization. I am NOT digging with the shovel in a park. (the phone call was real) The shovel was a prop in this video, outside of public view. I wanted to give the woods area, relic hunter the same perspective on this device. The ability to set the detector down beside the recovery area, standing up using shovel with both hands, facing any direction while cutting the plug, walking backwards with no disruption to cord, headphones or metal detector. - neswiper
