Does jewelry get a consistent read?

[Jay In NewKen]

Hello all,
So I was practising in the front yard for an hour after work today. I wanted to see how the new pro pointer work. One word, amazing! I digress, i've realised that clad gets a consistent read with my lil'250. Will the same occur with jewelry ie gold, silver? Or will it jump around like iron scrap? The soil around here is not very mineralized. I've air tested, but wanted someone with field experience to clarify.

Thanks,
Jay

 

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[Ism]

If its a gold or silver wedding band, pendant, coin or other solid round/ring shape it tends to be solid. Chains, earrings, bent or clustered jewelry, it tends to jump around.
Never used a 250 but my detectors respond as I described.

 

[Jason in Enid]

If its a gold or silver wedding band, pendant, coin or other solid round/ring shape it tends to be solid. Chains, earrings, bent or clustered jewelry, it tends to jump around.
Never used a 250 but my detectors respond as I described.

Yep, the numbers will be pretty solid for each item. But different sizes, shapes, and karat content will spread the range for different jewelry items.

 

[Jay In NewKen]

Unfortunately the 250 doesnt have a vdi, but i think i get the picture. Obviously, i haven't found any jewelery yet, but was curious as to what to expect. A park i plan on hitting this weekend has been a popular photo spot for weddings from the 40's until present. Cabin fever is getting unbearable.

Jay

 

[TerryC]

Note: The more expensive rings are usually thinner.... and harder to detect. Try to get a variety of sizes and metals to test with. Write it down for future reference. TTC

 

[McKinney_5900]

My archived wedding band, gold, when tested was glitchy and not solid. I think that big hole in the middle tricks the DD coil a little. I've tested small gold chains and they were almost non detected. martin

 

[Jason in Enid]

My archived wedding band, gold, when tested was glitchy and not solid. I think that big hole in the middle tricks the DD coil a little. I've tested small gold chains and they were almost non detected. martin

Actually, the round objects and especially the ring shaped targets create a signal that detectors LOVE. Not all detectors are equal though, and small and thin bands can start to give problems for some.

 

[gleaner1]

The gold jewelry sounds about as consistent as the foil wads and pull tabs and miscellaneous hunks of can slaw and various bits as small brass such as brass buttons and cartridge cases and shot shell bases and lead bullets and chunks of die cast toy cars and brass tokens and aluminum tokens and cheap rings and such. It's almost too consistent. But sometimes the gold breaks up a bit.

 

[Tom_in_CA]

Gleaner has the best answer that I'm reading here so far. "Jewelry" can be anywhere on the spectrum. From locked-on solid and bold, ...... To ratty and bouncing around . You've got to take depth and potential tilt of the object into consideration too. Jewelry can be big round and fat (chunky men's bands), to little and dainty (ladies thin solitaires , earings that don't make a complete loop, etc...)

 

[gleaner1]

Jewelry is difficult to find. Even if you are trying to find it, not gonna happen much unless you specialize in it. But it does happen to all of us now and again.

 

[Jason in Enid]

The gold jewelry sounds about as consistent as the foil wads and pull tabs and miscellaneous hunks of can slaw and various bits as small brass such as brass buttons and cartridge cases and shot shell bases and lead bullets and chunks of die cast toy cars and brass tokens and aluminum tokens and cheap rings and such. It's almost too consistent. But sometimes the gold breaks up a bit.

You are confusing the range of discrimination of ALL jewelry targets with what the OP asked, which is how a single jewelry target responds.

 

[Jay In NewKen]

Thanks for all the insight. I know i'm being optimistic , but since i've never found anything, i'd thought i'd ask. So the bottom line is, dig everything with a questionable signal. I can handle that. I guess Lady Luck can be a fickle b!%&*

Thanks again,
Jay

 

[hunter_46356]

Jay, Just starting out I can't tell you how much I lurked here reading everything I could before I actually began to post. I don't run what you would call high end detectors. But what I do know is in the beginning I dug everything What you have to do is continually recall what your detector was telling you before each dig so you can begin to get a the big picture of how your detector works for your soil and for the targets you do find. For me this evolved to guessing what the next signal would be before I dug it. Pretty soon you should get pretty good at it. In the beginning your learning how to metal detect by first learning what your machine is telling you. Then you learn where to go to be able to swing that detector over better targets. So basically dig everything until you start guessing correctly what you have dug. Then don't dig what your machine has consistently told you is junk. It may sound complicated but even in the course of a half day of detecting you should see an improvement by the end of that one session providing you have a variety of targets. You have started with a much better machine than I did and I think your learning curve will be much faster than mine was. Have Fun.

 

[cudamark]

Gleaner has the best answer that I'm reading here so far. "Jewelry" can be anywhere on the spectrum. From locked-on solid and bold, ...... To ratty and bouncing around . You've got to take depth and potential tilt of the object into consideration too. Jewelry can be big round and fat (chunky men's bands), to little and dainty (ladies thin solitaires , earings that don't make a complete loop, etc...)

Add costume jewelry, mineralized ground, and some metals that can leach into the soil over time, and you'll get all signals in the rainbow.

 

[gleaner1]

You are confusing the range of discrimination of ALL jewelry targets with what the OP asked, which is how a single jewelry target responds.

Jason I see now, you are right about Jay's simple question, my bad. In my experience, round jewelry will not bounce around, unless it is positioned at or near straight up on edge. I keep forgetting that people are using the numbers on the screen, and this must be what is jumpy, the screen id number. I have to remember this. I like sound, but the sound follows the id number pretty much, so I will speak as jumpy means the sound and/or the numbers. Jewelry can be anything, any size, shape, alloy, so all bets are off, but rings laying flat don't bounce around, not even the cheap ones. If the ring is crushed or split, it can become jumpy. Now, imagine another jewelry, a two inch long 18k crucifix buried 7 inches deep. Will that jump around? Perhaps, because it is not round. Anything irregular will be a bit jumpy. Fine gold chains are jewelry and if your machine can even hit on a fine gold chain, it will sound horrible like tattered bits of foil. Heavy rounded foil wads are good and stable. Expect excellent stability on round aluminum pulltabs and bottle caps. A machine set a zero scrim will not bounce around on a rusty crown cap or washer, because metal detectors love round things a lot. Especially metal detectors with concentric coils.