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My Pulltab with the Spectra V3

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rcsnake

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Got out for a few hours today and did manage to find a pulltab with the Spectra V3.

It is stamped 14K and is White gold.No idea on the diamond if it is real or a fake but I am sure the wife will find out before she says it is hers.

The ring came in at 4 in the ground but in the air it comes in at 8. Was only about 3 to 4 inches down and thought for sure that I was just digging another piece of foil.


Bob@Whites
rcsnake
 
Pretty ring Bob. From what I can see the prongs would be common to a real diamond mount. Are the other stones sapphires or maybe black onyx?
 
Larry (IL) said:
Pretty ring Bob. From what I can see the prongs would be common to a real diamond mount. Are the other stones sapphires or maybe black onyx?
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I believe the other stones are Block Onyx and as far as the the prongs it is a Stuller 1887 mounting, which is marked on the backside of the mounting prongs

rcsnake
 
Stuller is still in business today Bob, so don't get real excited yet, but it is a quality mount. What caught my attention is it looks like the diamond might be the older European or English cut which is a good sign of age. Can you provide a clearer picture? The European cut has half the faucets, and a smaller table, of the modern "perfect" cut diamond.
 
It seems the V3 can't find gold any better then other machine...I thought with such a high end machine you would have the edge on finding silver and gold better then most machines.
 
Low-Boy/LCPM said:
It seems the V3 can't find gold any better then other machine...I thought with such a high end machine you would have the edge on finding silver and gold better then most machines.
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Finding it is one thing, identifying it is another. Think of it like radar -- radar can tell you there's a bogey headed your way. It can probably make a pretty good guess whether it's a plane, a balloon, or a missile. It can probably even tell you roughly how big it is. But it can't tell you with certainty exactly what kind of plane it is or what country it's from. It's the same with metal detectors. It can make a decent guess at what kind of metal, how big, and how far away, but in the end there's always a certain amount of uncertainty. It's not a fault of the V3 or any other detector, it's just the way it is given how they work.
 
Yes you have to dig all mid Range VDI's if your after Jewelry, but with the V3's Sizing graft I can now pick out Shareded Aluminum in my park hunts, which reduces some unnecessary digging. BTW nice find
 
rcsnake said:
Got out for a few hours today and did manage to find a pulltab with the Spectra V3.

It is stamped 14K and is White gold.No idea on the diamond if it is real or a fake but I am sure the wife will find out before she says it is hers.

The ring came in at 4 in the ground but in the air it comes in at 8. Was only about 3 to 4 inches down and thought for sure that I was just digging another piece of foil.


Bob@Whites
rcsnake
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Hello Bob.

Regarding the VDI value of eight, for the white gold, 14k stamped ring.

The style of the ring lends itself to being a lower VDI than a plain band of the same carat and dimensions, but it suggests that the gold is alloyed with nickle, in a 14:10 ratio.

The nickel causing a lowering of the apparent VDI.

Ground Fe minerals and the ring's nickel contents would explain the 'in-soil' VDI of 4.

Now readers can appreciate why detecting by numbers is a risky method.

Well done Bob...................TheMarshall.

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See an earlier post re' white gold 14k wedding band....VDI 14.

V3 Recovers lost wedding ring
Posted by: hang7575 [ Send a Message ]
Date: May 28, 2009 11:05PM Registered: 7 days ago
Posts: 4

I helped out a friend today with a lost wedding band. He lost it about a year ago in his horse pasture and knew the general area that he lost it. I search two other times for it with an eagle spectrum and never found it . Took 10 min today and I hit a solid +14 at 2 inches, dug down and there it was white gold wedding band. Maybe I just missed it last time but it is a good V3 story. This was the first ring that I have found metal detecting
 
I do understand and I think the problem is that a lot of people thought it would do more. But I do know it is a great unit and has a lot of cool stuff I was just hoping it could do better at finding gold in trashy areas. Or deeper silver...I think as more users learn more...its full potential will be realized. I think it can do more then I am reading it is just too soon to know where this machine will take its place with all of the rest.
 
Nice pull tab! A couple of my wife's nicest 14K rings indicate at the lower foil ranges on my detectors. They have open space and decorative work like your tab and are not solid all the way around.
tvr
 
REAL nice Bob !!!

Pulltab ya say ! ~ [size=large]"Sometimes you get; ___ and sometimes you get got."[/size]

:detecting::pulltab::detecting:
 
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