Chris's Metal Detecting Page -
Metal Detecting Links
Chris's Mineral
Collecting Page is the main site which (as you probably guessed) is
about mineral collecting. You're now viewing a little sub-section
of the site I designed to accomodate another one of my interests, metal
detecting. So far I have available:Chris's Metal Detecting, Page 1 - Cleaning dug coins by electrolysis (only for ones that aren't rare!)
Chris's Metal Detecting, Page 2 - Cleaning dug coins with oil soaking, provided you use the correct oil and know a little chemistry (good for the rare & old ones)
Here are some good external links I've found:
Bulletman's
Metal Detecting Finds - This is one of the coolest relic hunter
sites I've found. These guys found Civil War artillery shells and
cannonballs, cleaning them up with electrolysis and coming out with
some really first-class pieces!! I would love to go detecting
with these guys.
Carolyn's
Metal Detecting Corner - have a look at the finds section.
Nice coins! Site also has its own forum that has quite a few
users.
Metal Detecting Hobby Resource - A hobbyist-built site with lots of great MD'ing content... tips, photos, articles, you name it. Have a look!
Metal Detecting World - Beautiful site by Sergei, a serious hobbyist from Upstate NY. He's gone detecting in the USA, Russia, Serbia, Estonia, and the UK... and he has plenty of photos and stories on his web site! Excellent.
The Treasure Preserve - here's a place in Pennsylvania where they apparently have detector events where you can dig up coins and caches. This looks enjoyable... I'll let you know when I try it.
The Truth About Long Range Locators - before you buy one of those hugely expensive, handheld things that claims to be able to find faraway treasure and gemstones, read this! If you're new to the treasure hunting hobby, save your money and get a real metal detector. If you really think you want an "electroscope" or LRL, you might want to make your own dowsing rod instead. If dowsing really works, it's more in the dowser than it is in the rod anyway. (In my opinion, a calculator stuck on a box with a dowsing rod coming out of it isn't worth $300 and up!) I might try dowsing, but why spend a ton of money just to find out whether you have a gift for it or not?
Treasurenet - a big TH'ing site, with forums. This is one of the Internet's two or three biggest forums on metal detecting and TH'ing.
This page, like the rest of this site, is perpetually under
construction. It will be updated when I get the time and
inclination, which means updates are unpredictable.
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