Fun Day out in Auckland New Zealand

[supersounder]

Hi Folks this is my first post to a forum. Went out to a small beach only about 300m long. Doesn't get a lot of use but the sand shifts a lot between visits so I decided see if any old items got lifted up with the last big sand shift. Didn't expect to find much as I had hammered this beach pretty hard over the last 5 months. Quite a lot of iron sand and mineral rich rock on this beach makes it quite hard to sift the good from the bad targets. Might do better here on the super low tides.

The attached little silver ring had been down there a long time as it was badly corroded with some of it going quite deep. The stones looked pretty good and I know it wasn't going to be worth much as scrap so I decided to try my hand at restoring it for a bit of fun.

I had to sand all the silver down with 320 grit sandpaper to get the deep pits out of it and went down though the grades to get a reasonable polish then metal polished it. Turned out not so bad in the end.

Also scored 3 fishing sinkers and 3 obsolete NZ decimal coins Plus the usual heap of bottle tops etc.

Was a fun day out.

Cheers Glenn

 

[ToddsPoint]

Very nice ring! Good job on restoration. 👍🏻

 

[supersounder]

Thanks Tod. Took about 6 hours. In terms of value it probably works out to about $2.50 an hour LOL!! But I agree it is quite a nice little thing so worth the effort as a keepsake.

 

[Almy]

If we were concerned about our dollars per hour, not many would be metal detecting! It the fun of seeking, of finding, and of treasuring the things we find.

 

[Trezurehunter]

Welcome to the forum and congrats on that ring.

 

[mindcrime1988]

Sweet little ring.

 

[oldmxrat]

Congrats and welcome to Tnet!

 

[supersounder]

Hi Guys . Thanks for the nice comments. Have to agree with Almy. Detecting is a great way to keep fit and each step you take COULD be the ring of a lifetime or a can tab so you never know what you will find next which keeps us coming back for more. scenery is nice to so can't see a down side to it. detecting is a good day out with a good find, the icing on the cake.