I hope this turns out to be a good lost ring story...

[ziphius]

A couple of months ago, I was MDing the beach near the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO) and a guy walks up to me and says his friend who works at SIO lost a tungsten wedding band just south of the pier. He asks me if I or any of my MDing coterie have found such a ring. No, I say, but I'll be sure to spread the word. Of course, I forget the name of the guy who lost the ring. My buddy Dave (Fumunda on the kinzlicoils forum) tells me a few weeks later that a friend of his just told him about a lost tungsten wedding band near the SIO pier. Yeah, I know, I ran into someone who told me the same thing. Last night, I'm hunting around the pier, move up the beach a little to avoid another MDer with a more expensive detector and longer scoop [it's getting crowded out here], and then come back down to the water's edge. I get a really nice signal at 6 inches and out of comes this ring. No markings, too light for platinum, I'm thinking tungsten. Any opinions? If I can confirm that it is tungsten, I will begin my search for the owner on Monday morning. Should be easy to find too, as I work right up the hill from SIO and know a few people down there. - Jim

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[cwilk]

Sure is a nice looking ring. How does tungsten register?

Good karma for you and I am looking forward to the rest of the story.

Chris

 

[ziphius]

Chris,

This ring registered a bar or two left of 'pull tab' on the Ace 250. Sand was very wet, with intermittent wave action over the spot. Oh yeah, I almost forgot: The Ace 250 *does* work in wet sand! Just need to deal with some falsing and have a discriminating ear. I've been experimenting with my settings and have cranked the sensitivity to max and slowed down my sweeps. This has resulted in less falsing when compared with lower sensitivity/faster sweeps. Same beach, though we've had some erosion lately, so maybe the iron content has been reduced too.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

Great story Jim. Keep us posted on how the owner search goes. It might be harder than finding the ring.....

 

[Uncle Willy]

Looks to be tungsten or titanium.

Bill

 

[ziphius]

My buddy Fumunda on the kinzlicoils forum found a craigslist link where someone posted their loss of a ring that matches the one I found, dead-on location too. We've made email contact and will meet this week to confirm (or deny) the ring's identity. - Jim

 

[Uncle Willy]

Good deal. Maybe you'll make someone real happy.

Bill

 

[ziphius]

This turned out to be a good ring story! The fellow Bret came by my office today and nearly fell over when he opened the ring box I had put it in! He immediately called his wife and I heard her shrieking on the other end of the phone. We snapped a couple of photos overlooking the Scripps Pier where the ring was lost and he went away a happy man. - Jim

 

[awhitster]

[quote ziphius]This turned out to be a good ring story! The fellow Bret came by my office today and nearly fell over when he opened the ring box I had put it in! He immediately called his wife and I heard her shrieking on the other end of the phone. We snapped a couple of photos overlooking the Scripps Pier where the ring was lost and he went away a happy man. - Jim[/quote]Great ending. I have a picture of a guy with the ring I found for him. Post a pic if you can.

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

I'm always the skeptic. Did the Craigslist come out before or after you posted about finding the ring?

 

[ziphius]

The craigslist posting preceded my posting by well over a month. The owner's posting described the ring and the location perfectly and the coup de grace was the look on his face when he opened the box and subsequent phone call to his wife. I have absolutely no doubts. I'll post a picture of the event when I get the image off my camera. - jim

 

[Rosco Bookbinder]

Glad to hear it all turned out well. You just never know now days with all the info people can get and use.......Gongrats for sure!!!