.......HOW WOULD ONE SEARCH FOR A GOLD TENNIS BRACELET......??

[Joe(TX)]

....My past experience has told me that these are hard to find.........I could search in All-Metal but hate to dig that many holes in a Home Owner's yard..........any tips would be appreciated.....Joe

[worldtalker]

Who lost it,and how long ago?

[Joe(TX)]

...I am a member of a group who does this as a service for free.......I do not know the person and all I know is that a gold tennis bracelet was lost....not much else is known for the moment....for some reason the detector does not see the bracelet as a whole...it only sees the individual links...so that makes finding it very difficult .......now if it has a a large latch or at least one portion of it that is larger then the individual links then it is easier to find.............also for some reason....gold jewelry seems to be found easier if the frequency is around 12 to 16 KHZ......I have not found that much when it comes to gold bracelets or even gold necklaces...that is why I am seeking advise on findint finding this item.....I guess that if the gold bracelet is very valuable and very sentimental ......the homeowner probably would Not mind all the digging.....but I guess as a consientous detectorist...that this goes against all that I have been taught .........Joe

[mighty_mace]

I've been looking for a gold bracelet lost at my parents about 10ish years ago with no luck. Partly due to all the d*mn .22 rimfire cases all over the yard. (i'm the culprit growing up)

I stop in and try every now and then, hopefully some day i'll get lucky.

If you find any tips be sure to post em here!

[M_M]

Good luck!

Did it slip off or was it thrown off?

I remember visually searching for a friends bracelet and found it where she sat down on a bench. She then found my keys by the gate! Whether I dropped them the first or second time I was there I'll never know!

[Neil in West Jersey]

It depends on the detector. Most Minelabs (with the exception of the GPX series) have a hard time with small gold such as chains and should definitely be in All Metal, but some White's detectors, such as the V3i should have no problem detecting it in the high frequency (22.5KHz) and accepting VDI numbers into the ferrous range down to -40. I have seen chains come up in the -20 range on the White's

You should not need to dig for a bracelet unless it was dropped years ago. Even so, chains tend to stay very close to the surface. and a probe should do the trick.