A very strange hunt today

signal · Feb 12, 2017

I got a call today because a gentlemen lost his earring. I went out there, and he showed me the site that him and his friend were wrestling. It was a nice grass area. He had already found the earring back, just couldn't find the diamond stud which was laid in 14k gold. I was armed with my AT pro, with small DD coil and my Garrett Pro Pointer. I hit the area a bit and it was perfectly clean, unusually clean, a very nice clean area. So I asked him for his other earring (he had a matching set). It did not make my AT Pro go off. So I tried my Pro Pointer. Not a bleep. I checked some of his friends earrings just for good measure and both my AT Pro went off (around 65 or so) and my Pro pointer went off. I pulled a small piece of foil out of the ground about 3 in down. I demonstrated my equipment worked on coins, chains, small pieces of all different types of metal. The "back" to his earring which he did find, DID make the Pro pointer go off. But the post/setting/diamond stud did not. So I told him that it must contain no metal, and that I would assume its plastic. They were all in shock.......he gave me a payment for my time in coming out there to help, but I must say I have never seen an earring where the setting was not metal!

kcm · Feb 12, 2017

Weird!

Rawhide · Feb 12, 2017

Well the was a full moon, a partial eclipse, and a Meteor shower also.

enamel7 · Feb 12, 2017

Man loses earring while wrestling with friend in grass? Glad you ended that story there!

SteveM70 · Feb 12, 2017

enamel7 said:
Man loses earring while wrestling with friend in grass? Glad you ended that story there!

And all his friends earrings set the detector off. To each there own but I couldn't help but think how a few years ago the earring not setting off the metal detector would not have been the strange part of that story.

WhiteTornado · Feb 13, 2017

Maybe the earring back was made from some kind of composite material? Strange indeed!

signal · Feb 13, 2017

WhiteTornado said:
Maybe the earring back was made from some kind of composite material? Strange indeed!

The earring back set off the pro pointer, the earring itself (diamond, likely fake, and stud/setting) did not.

I had never seen resin/plastic earrings with a metallic finish of some kind......

WhiteTornado · Feb 13, 2017

signal said:
The earring back set off the pro pointer, the earring itself (diamond, likely fake, and stud/setting) did not.

I had never seen resin/plastic earrings with a metallic finish of some kind......

Sorry, I meant the stud setting. But overall, yeah, that would stump me too.

Carolina Tom · Feb 13, 2017

The stud was too small for that ATP to pick up. Only a high frequency machine could hit that stud, because of it's extremely small size.

Maybe?

signal · Feb 13, 2017

Carolina Tom said:
The stud was too small for that ATP to pick up. Only a high frequency machine could hit that stud, because of it's extremely small size.

Maybe?

I physically touched the Pro Pointer to the stud. ProPointer will alert even on a small spec of tin, nickel, iron, etc.....I just touched it all over the stud/setting and not a bleep. I used 2 different Pro Pointers, the new carrot and the older black model. It has to be a resin/plastic. Sort of like xmas ornaments that have that metallic look but are just a plastic with some sort of metallic looking coating which is actually plastic. Even a foil coating or "plating" would have caused the Pro Pointer to alert......

cudamark · Feb 13, 2017

I've had several earring hunts where none of my 14 detectors (including pin pointers) would get a hit on a stud earring except for my gold nugget machine and my old TinyTec pin pointer. If you have access to a dedicated nugget machine, you might want to give it another try.

Carolina Tom · Feb 13, 2017

cudamark said:
I've had several earring hunts where none of my 14 detectors (including pin pointers) would get a hit on a stud earring except for my gold nugget machine and my old TinyTec pin pointer. If you have access to a dedicated nugget machine, you might want to give it another try.

No offense meant Signal, but Cudamark knows his stuff something fierce. You need a 18khz or higher machine to find those studs. They are not conductive enough, and too small for the lower frequencies to hit... or at least that's what they have been telling me.

Good luck sir!