Skippy SH13
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- Feb 18, 2015
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OH YEAH! Diamonds, baby! Finally found one with real diamonds... and it's a doozy!
FINALLY... I FINALLY found a ring with diamonds. Hunting with the ACE 350 in a park. Ring was about 4 inches down, and rang up pull tab/gold, but wasn't the "solid" tone I'm used to with rings. I figure it was because it was deeper, and not really a "solid" band (had three bands that were connected).
It's my 6th gold ring this year, and when it showed up in the ground, when I lifted the flap, I immediately thought "Costume jewelry" for sure. It was just too blingy to be real, right?
My son was hunting with me this morning, though, and there were lots of folks watching at the park, so I simply said, "look at this." And he said, "cool" (all calm and non-chalant, just like we practiced... He's the perfect kid. LOL), and I pocketed it and we both kept hunting. A few minutes later we met again at the next row, and I pulled it out and we looked at it. He blew out some of the dirt, and said, "Hey, this is hollow." At that point, my brain piqued. Initially, when I pulled it out of the ground, it looked like a black and silver ring (that rang up as a pull tab). I figured it was just costume... When he said that, and handed over the ring, I noted there was ZERO corrosion on it, and I wiped the inside band. Immediately, I saw 585 UJDC. BOOYAH! At that point, I simply said out loud, "I guess it's time to hit that other site," and we we metal detected a bit more as we walked to the car.
Once in the car, we were SOO excited together (It's so much fun sharing that with someone, especially my son!)... we cleaned it up a bit and noted it had a TON of diamonds on it. My son was asking "are they real?" I told him I thought so, since it was 14K white gold, and they looked very well placed.
Long story shortened... we ended up NOT going to the other site (we really were planning on another location!), but rather ended up at a superstore jewelry counter, where they cleaned it a bit (with brush and light solvent first), then tested. First diamond tested positive, but the other large ones couldn't get a read. The manager was called over, and he looked under the microscope. He noted they were all prong attachments, not glued in, then took it in the back to steam it clean. We had a nice talk about the find, and they were very excited, references to "American Digger" were thrown about. LOL
The manager came back, and noted that they all tested positive, definitely real, and decent stones, to boot! He noted the reason for the hard time getting positive readings was the shape of the cut (They had peaks on the large three center diamonds), noting they were quite unique cuts, that he'd not seen before.. instead of having a flat top, these had an additional 6 facets.
I'm so stoked! Bucket list checked off, in a BIG way! Woot!
This video is only 6 seconds long... and simply shows the ring in the sunlight after being cleaned up.
-Skippy
FINALLY... I FINALLY found a ring with diamonds. Hunting with the ACE 350 in a park. Ring was about 4 inches down, and rang up pull tab/gold, but wasn't the "solid" tone I'm used to with rings. I figure it was because it was deeper, and not really a "solid" band (had three bands that were connected).
It's my 6th gold ring this year, and when it showed up in the ground, when I lifted the flap, I immediately thought "Costume jewelry" for sure. It was just too blingy to be real, right?
My son was hunting with me this morning, though, and there were lots of folks watching at the park, so I simply said, "look at this." And he said, "cool" (all calm and non-chalant, just like we practiced... He's the perfect kid. LOL), and I pocketed it and we both kept hunting. A few minutes later we met again at the next row, and I pulled it out and we looked at it. He blew out some of the dirt, and said, "Hey, this is hollow." At that point, my brain piqued. Initially, when I pulled it out of the ground, it looked like a black and silver ring (that rang up as a pull tab). I figured it was just costume... When he said that, and handed over the ring, I noted there was ZERO corrosion on it, and I wiped the inside band. Immediately, I saw 585 UJDC. BOOYAH! At that point, I simply said out loud, "I guess it's time to hit that other site," and we we metal detected a bit more as we walked to the car.
Once in the car, we were SOO excited together (It's so much fun sharing that with someone, especially my son!)... we cleaned it up a bit and noted it had a TON of diamonds on it. My son was asking "are they real?" I told him I thought so, since it was 14K white gold, and they looked very well placed.
Long story shortened... we ended up NOT going to the other site (we really were planning on another location!), but rather ended up at a superstore jewelry counter, where they cleaned it a bit (with brush and light solvent first), then tested. First diamond tested positive, but the other large ones couldn't get a read. The manager was called over, and he looked under the microscope. He noted they were all prong attachments, not glued in, then took it in the back to steam it clean. We had a nice talk about the find, and they were very excited, references to "American Digger" were thrown about. LOL
The manager came back, and noted that they all tested positive, definitely real, and decent stones, to boot! He noted the reason for the hard time getting positive readings was the shape of the cut (They had peaks on the large three center diamonds), noting they were quite unique cuts, that he'd not seen before.. instead of having a flat top, these had an additional 6 facets.
I'm so stoked! Bucket list checked off, in a BIG way! Woot!
This video is only 6 seconds long... and simply shows the ring in the sunlight after being cleaned up.
-Skippy
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