Turned up to a nice house up on Mt Osmond at 5pm today to find a lost wedding band. Introduced myself and had a quick chat for a couple of minutes.
Then at around 5.03 I asked all the heavy questions about what he was doing at the time, where he had been, what was he wearing, is there a chance it is in the car, bin, house, and all that logistic stuff …
Dom called me on Saturday while I was away on holiday. He had lost his wedding band at Brighton Beach just south of Adelaide on Friday and tried to find it himself after buying a metal detector. Unfortunately he was unable to find it and found me online. I spent about 45 minutes looking in the areas he pointed out then extended the search area a little and found it. A nice gold wedding band found and returned :)
Had a look for a ring lost four years ago by a now deceased gentleman. The son phoned me up to see if I could help his mother out by finding the long lost ring and bring a little bit of her lost husband back to her.
The search was over much of the front yard and it ended up being under a rock in a very overgrown bush.
One very happy son, and a crying, overwhelmed beautiful lady who gave me a hug
Some ring and coin finds from around Adelaide
The quiet winter months are over and it is time to prepare for spring and summer. This year I am hoping to build enough momentum and goodwill to make a living out of metal detecting.
I know there is enough demand and opportunity, it is the marketing and general business skills that need work- yep me :)
Everything related to the business needs work, there’s the crazy low pricing, the lack of some specialist equipment, a shop front and 100’s of other details that would improve things. This week’s task was organising some car signage.
The largest single genre of lost jewellery searches I perform are lost rings that slip off while throwing something at the beach. While I really enjoy searching for and finding rings in beach environments they do have some unique difficulties that make things interesting. 1. Salt water destroys electronics quickly
Waves and wind can make searching the surf zone extremely tricky (and sometimes a little dangerous)
It can be really busy on nice days, so physically getting to the search area is problematic.
I had the absolute pleasure of helping out Phil and his wife with a very sentimental lost item yesterday.
The call came in while I was knee deep in databases so was in itself a welcome relief :) Phil was originally looking for a hire detector to find his late mother’s wedding band but 
after a quick chat I explained that the hire detectors were not really ideal for new users in wet beach salt water sand environments and suggested just getting me to pop down there..
While jewellery rescue is the main reason we get called out to search with metal detectors there are plenty of other reasons to consider using a detector. Here are some to think about:
Today’s search was tricky for a few reasons. The main issue was that the lost keys were somewhere in a massive search area. They were lost in one of two 2 hectare paddocks and narrowing the search zone was difficult.
The second major issue was that the keys were lost in knee high grass, so both keeping the coil close to the ground and also following up on signals was difficult.
Just back from a successful search for a really nice white gold ring with a large Victoria era diamond. The lady was completely distraught and devastated at losing this ring. Fortunately she was clever enough to note the area carefully and was able to put me within 5m of the location. Connor joined me for this trip and the little trooper helped hold a torch :)
After marking out a search area and getting to work it only took about a minute before hearing that lovely growl of white gold. I am really glad I was able to get down to Seacliff tonight and help out this really nice couple :)