Hi guys, I am wondering how your F75 rings up higher carat rings vs 10k. I get 10k rings by the sound and the range of the numbers on my screen. The combination being the key as the numbers jump high teens to mid thirties. What have your experiences been with the higher carat gold?
Higher karat gold might come in higher than lower karat gold but I have found some 24k gold and discovered this isn't always true.
This ring came in between 28-30 on two Fishers and look at the buttery color...It tests to 22k but that is as high as my acids go.
It is way to soft to be anything less than 24k.
A friend found a smaller ring in a different shape than this one marked.999...It came in at the dime area on several detectors.
Sorry to burst your bubble but all gold and where it comes in has more to do with the size, weight, shape and configuration and how it is laying in the dirt than the karat purity.
Also depth and masking metals can easily come into play, also.
Think about this, a $1 American gold coin and a $20 coin are both pretty much the same high karat purity but the smaller dollar coin comes in at the foil range whereas the big one will be the quarter/half dollar range.
If you are aiming for 10k gold and believe it only comes in between those teens and mid thirty numbers you could be missing a ton.
It is true that higher karat gold can and should come in higher than a similar sized item in lower k but as I said I have found this isn't always true, either.
Here are 5 targets that all came in between 48-52 on Fishers.
That is can slaw territory, not much I know of that is any good comes in at those numbers most of the time...but these did.
All 10k, too
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Here are a couple of pics of most of the gold I have found and all were tested with either an F2 or an F70.
The F70 or your F75 would come in real close to the F2 range but due to the higher frequency they might be a number or two off but no more than than that.
They are mixed between 10 and 14k except for that pearl ring and the Neena one.
As I said the size matters more...many small 14k rings come in lower than bigger 10k rings.
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One more thing to make it even more frustrating.
There could be a big difference between white gold and yellow gold too and nothing is in stone here either because there can be different alloys used to make that white gold color.
Here are two of the same style wedding rings I have found called channel rings.
Very common, I have found two others in the same style also with ice.
The bigger one by two sizes is the white gold one on the left, if the one on the right was much bigger it would have come in at the 40's and higher than those mid 30's you mentioned.
Both of these are also 10k.
I also use tones and numbers to hunt for gold but much more than that I use behavior I have observed in all these gold pieces I have found.
I dug all this gold because of that specific behavior, the numbers they comes in at and the sound I heard were way down the line in importance.
Gold can come in from iron all the way up to quarter/half dollar numbers...It just can and does.
You can't really categorize it by karat purity or believe there is any really specific range of numbers any gold exists at consistantly when it comes to jewelry.
Coins, maybe...jewelry, not a chance.
The universe just isn't going to make it that easy for us jewelry hunters as nice as that would be if it did.
