What was your first detector??

[CTXcavator]

I got this awesome piece of kit back when I was 12yrs old! Don't have one anymore but Id part with a buck or two to have one again.

[john coulson]

K1000 kit bought from a chap in Bridport Dorset.
Had a great few years with it.
I believe it may of been a c scope product but cannot remember.
Searched the web but cannot find any pics of it.

[barrie]

This was my first detector a best Qtone.

[GHOST]

My first was a toolbliss something or other, for my 5 th birthday 1972.
Had loads of knobs on it that you twiddled even though they weren't connected to owt, you just thought it worked better when you twiddled them.
Proper old fashioned looking thing.

[chriscolle]

My first detector was a whites coinmaster in 2011, didn't even have the faintest idea why they called it a coinmaster.
The guy selling them uses his living room as a shop.

Anyway it was fascinating walking along the beach in the evening, digging up everything.
Guess what it found coins as well.

After watching countless amounts of youtube videos, reading every article on detecting I could find.
I bought myself an Excalbur II, Imagine my surprise when it found its first gold ring shortly after.

Now I've come full circle since I bought the coinmaster last summer.
Excalibur, Sovereign, Xterra 705, E-trac, CTX, Deus and I usually take tector out for its walk about 3 times a week.

Been out in freezing weather, at night, lazy summer evenings, wearing full rain gear, hot tailed it out of dodge for an incoming thunderstorm.
I just love the hobby, peace and quiet, mind at rest, no fiddling about with bait.
Haven't found anything really old, sure have a nice collection of bling by now!

[jerrykerry]

Had a treasure hunter for christmas when i was 11 - then in 2000 bought a cscope - the 3 months later a Fieldmaster - then 3 months later a explorer.....

[Jeff Brown]

My first one was made by my dad, he's an electric/electronic freak.
He used to detect, and I dug the coins (and rubbish).
He kept the siver ( sixpences, shillings, half crowns) and I had the pennies.
Whenever I had a handfull I would run up the beach to the slot machines,
lost everything within minutes, and started all over again.
Main beach was Bigbury.

[Rob]

Interesting seeing a picture of the Best Q Tone again Barry, always wanted one of those with the walking stick handle, must be a collectors item now and worth a bit.

[Mal L]

1st post
Don't laugh my first was a Tandy with the swinging needles like a volt meter,then a Cscope forget the model
a huge leap to a Fisher CoinStrike also have the Garrett 2500,and now getting to grips with the CTX3030.

Malc

[barrie]

Interesting seeing a picture of the Best Q Tone again Barry, always wanted one of those with the walking stick handle, must be a collectors item now and worth a bit.

Unfortunately the only detector I ever sold ...

it had a maximum depth of about 4" on a good day with the wind behind it.

[Goldhunter]

My first was a Savo-Whites Coingetter 3. One knob to turn on, TR machine.
Bought in 1978 whilst still at school, from Colin Kane who was involved with the Stevenage club.

Found a Roman bronze with it near hitchin

[astonmt]

My first detector was a home made BFO built from plans in an American magazine in 1976 very 'Heath Robinson' with a wooden stem and the coil sandwiched betweeln 2 pieces of formica. I was able to find modern coins on a local picnic site and the machine had a high degree of iron discrimination, unfortunately I loaned it to somebody who didn't return it.
It was replaced with a Bounty Hunter TR(? 500) which cost around £48!!

[EOS]

My first detector was a Compass Coin Magnum I bought for a lot of money.This was more then 30 years ago.The Compass was an VLF/TR detector with manuel ground balance.I paid 400£ for the detector 1979.I was 15 year old and my father told my I was "blue-eyed" saying you not gonna find anything with that.After 6 months he purchased a Compass as well....haha.

I found so much good finds,sold a lot of the silver and gold I found but still have 1200 coins or more.Why I dont know,but my son like to play hide the treasure

Michael

[Rob]

I remember building a BFO detector back in the 70s, for my brother-in -law, sounds very similar to the one you made astonmt, he had quite a bit of fun with it in the back garden , one problem was next doors dog howled like mad as soon as he heard it, not popular with the neighbours and I got the blame.

[broadsmaster]

My First detector bought in about 1968 had a wooden coil and a little detuned playboy transistor radio on the shaft bought from a company
called m.l.Beach cant remember where they were located i was living in hertfordshire at the time and took myself off on the bus to buy it and i thought i was the mutts nutts when i was out with this ,few years later upgrade to c-scopes tr200 and ib300 which way around i cant remember.