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Two x gold in 2020 !

1/ Wedding ring

Well, who would have thought I would find a second wedding ring near the same spot where I found my first and only wedding ring so far ? I was just about to leave the playground as it started to become ‘crowdy’ with a couple and their kid, and then Bam. I had something round, gold-colored an heavy in my hand. If it’s gold-colored, heavy and no green or brown shining through, start to prepare to be happy lol.

2/ Calendar pendant

As usual, those finds are unexpected. I always WANT to find gold but when I do it’s mostly when I’m already done and ready to go home. This pendant was near the entrance of the beach where I detected 2 hrs without finding much. It was quite a surprise, since the beach hasn’t been very nice since Summer. I don’t know how it ended up in the dry part: did the storm blow it that far uphill or did someone lose it recently ? It has some scratches like it has had a not so nice meting with some stone or street, but it can be an older scratch from before it was lost maybe. All in all, it’s my best year for gold (not counting the 4x 14k wedding bands in Montenegro long time ago :D). I also hunt a lot more than before but still, it’s hard to find something with some value. I cannot make a living out of detecting :p

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Mal’s Surffones for sale

I was looking for a decent replacement for my original Blue Excalibur’s metaldetector headphones, which are too heavy and squeeze my brains out. After a long quest online, I got in touch with Mal and I ordered a pair of his famous custom made headphones. However great they are, any decent set will hurt my ears tremendously (because I’m wearing glasses with thick legs) and so I decided to stick with my light bad-quality headphones.

They are very well built and will last a lifetime. NOT meant to go underwater, but they can stand the rain and a small drop in the lake. 90cm cable is attached to it, also very good quality.
Sound quality should be excellent. THey can be used immediately on a Minelab Excalibur (you need to just stick in the wire through the end cap and solder it onto the old headphone wires) or CTX 3030 but you’ll need to fix a new connector to them. I guess they can be used with any detector but then also, you’ll need the connector. I temporarily soldered a small headphone jack to them.
You can find videos and reviews like this : https://metaldetectingforum.com/showthread.php?t=251943

No bad word to find about them.
Send me a message on my instagram @jetski_kopetski if you have any questions. I am from Belgium so keep that in mind.

They can be connected either by guiding the cable through the resin in teh endcap, or by installing a CTX connector onto the end cap. In this way, you can disconnect the headphones but I don’t really see why you would need that. Here is a video of how it is done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ZH3EXg06AY

The endcap has a white and red wire going out of it into a 2-pin connector on the green board inside. Once you open the endcap, it is just a matter of releasing this connector off its 2 pins where it’s sitting on. These 2 wires are the left and right connections of the headphones.