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Fifty years ago a time capsule was sealed and buried at Stuart Town in central west NSW and was opened recently I hope this video plays and is viewable

I made up a couple of dolly pots, a detector shop wanted some, they already stock my Gold Digger Picks, so I made up these, they wanted 12 when they saw them, yep all good. 😄 cheers dave

I have been using a LGP type forge to do some Blacksmith type forging and making various things. I have decided to make a Charcoal type forge to do the same kind of projects, but it should run a lot cheaper using wood/charcoal instead of LPG The build so far is going well, and with advice from...

Still having a good time in WA outback detecting, finding lots of small bits of gold. cheers dave

We bought the gpx6000 minelab detector brand new a few weeks ago and it going great, found a couple of patches of small stuff so far and plenty of scattered bits. This is the start of another little patch today, 12 bits so far and hope it keeps going. Might just have to grid this a bit with a...

I am selling one of our GPZ 7000's as we bought a new 6000, So the GPZ7000 comes with a new 14" standard Minelab coil, New headphones, and all the rest of the standard equipment like chargers and cables etc, (except the harness, sorry no harness) Price is $7000 plus postage/shipping or pickup...

Well my WM12 for my GPZ7000 stopped working, would not turn on and seemed to be dead dead dead, so I opened it up put a multimeter on the battery zipo nada nada dead, so I took the battery out of Veronica WM12 and put it in mine and yes it fired up and charged, so I knew it was the battery...

I have one Crevice Tool that I made that I am willing to sell if anyone is interested, if more are interested I'll move this to "Services Offered" section total length is about 375mm end to end hardened and tempered scratching hook end for good wearing ability, Note: is not a leaver for...

If anyone is wanting to make there own Blacksmith tongs, I have some laser cut blanks to make it easier. I have 6mm thick (light duty) $20 per set plus postage and 10mm thick (heavy duty) $30 per set plus postage light duty 6mm thick 350mm long heavy duty 10mm thick 400mm long how they...

Today I made up a set of 16" (410mm) long x 10mm thick bolt jaw blacksmith tongs, they hoe round bar from 6mm upto 12mm comfortably putting this material in and out of the forge to be hammered to whatever shape you want. I had the tong blanks laser cut to make it much easier to make them, just...

These sturdy S hooks for hanging things on in the shed or pot plants on the Veranda, link them together to get a longer hook. $7.50 per hook, and $2.50 postage for a maximum of two hooks combined in a single packet. Choose the size or any combination, same price per hook. This is how each of...

I've been busy making things, and after the Infinity Cube Coffee Table one of the good members on here has shown me how to make these Metal Roses. They are a bit fiddly to make and take quite awhile, each one is a little different so they are all individuals. This is how they look cheers dave

I am making these metal roses (hand made) and brass brushed to give the gold looking highlight effect. I am taking orders and also will have a few in stock. Price is $80.00 local pickup, or add extra $10.00 for postage. Being hand made each rose is slightly different but the pictures below...

Another little project to keep me busy, an infinity cube coffee table, it turned out ok. the finished project and some of the progress along the way holding it all together before welding cheers dave

Just a bit of a project I have been working on, making a Viking Axe, started with a $20.00 axe from bunnings and cut/grind it to shape, was trying to acid etch the design onto the metal but it didn't work properly, I need to learn a lot more about acid etching. So I just painted the axe and...

Started running a bit of the milled quartz rock through the Gold Cube, some gold and some metal fillings from the wearing down of the chain links in the impact mill, but a magnet gets most of that out of the way

A short video of crushing quartz to get the gold pickers before putting it through the mill and the gold cube to get the fines

Minelab GPX 4500 detector (One of the Australian made) Includes Minelab 11” mono coil Genuine GPX 4500 battery (that has been repacked) Minelab harness 12v and 240 volt battery chargers Booster and twin speakers Control box cover for detector Bungy cord User Manual + (still have original...

So over a thousand years ago Norway had no ice covering it as is being discovered now and the Vikings walked back and forth, then things changed and it all froze up with ice and now the ice is melting again...

I've been making an Impact Mill rock crusher for speeding up the rock crushing process, it seems to work well and grinds the rock/quartz to fine powder in a single pass, and yes I have to break the rock down a bit to start with to fit down the 40x40 feed tube into the mill. these are the...