Recap - 2 weeks of detecting Cape Cod beaches - new pictures

time4me · Aug 4, 2008

My family and I just got back to California Saturday after a wonderful 2-week vacation on Cape Cod. I was able to get out most mornings to detect the local beaches for 2 to 3 hours each morning, and had a really fun time.

Here is a picture of the total haul of keepers from the trip...

I already posted about the gold rings I found - the huge man's 18K wedding band, regular sized man's 14K wedding band, and small gold band (which tested at 14K), as well as the mystery ring (or earring hoop) that tested at 10K gold and looks very old or battered from many years in the rocky surf.

Here is a close-up of the rings found - 10 in all...

The small silver claddagh ring was horribly covered with a black crust, and I didn't hold out any hope for it..

But, after building my own electrolysis kit and zapping it for about five minutes, and then giving it a polish, it came out beautiful...

This worked so well that I dug out another ring that I had found a couple of years back here in the California salt water to see if I could get it any cleaner. Here are the before pictures...

... and after the electrolysis treatment and some polishing, here is the result...

It is still pretty pitted from its time in the ocean, but it sure looks a lot nicer than it did before the electrolysis.

Anyways, I am already looking forward to next year's trip to Cape Cod, and we are trying to figure out a way to stay a month rather than two weeks next year.

Thanks for looking!

Jim

NGE · Aug 4, 2008

Be very careful of what kind of rings you do electrolosys on, some costume jewelry rings have the stones glued in and the juice will make the stones come out.......Nice haul........Not GE