I decided I needed a PI machine and after seeking lots of advice I bought a used Whites TDI SL. I put it all together the night I got it and hit the beach the next day with a wind chill of 22 degrees! I was there from 10:30 am till sundown at 4:45ish and dug until my forearms started giving out and I would have to put my machine down to lift the scoop with two arms just to get it out of the hole. I knew about the learning curve with any new machine much less going to a PI machine so I dug EVERYTHING! I know I did my share of cleaning that beach of 20 year old pull tabs and rusty nails and lots of other unidentifiable rusty items. I dug clad and a Connecticut Company Token and an Irish Coin form 1996. The sun was going down and I was making my way (the long way) back to the parking lot and decided the detect along the waters edge. I was cold and beat but obsessed so I kept swinging... I got a faint signal and took two big scoops out and saw a glimpse of yellow wire, I reaching in my double gloved hand as quick as I could before the hole filled in with water and pulled out a gold wire ring (still not sure it wasn't a yellow wire). When I got home and looked with the loop I saw the most beautiful words... Tiffany & Co 750! So my first gold ring was a Tiffany one at that! Now I really have the fever!!