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My client in this recovery requested anonymity, so he will be referred to as “Mr. Z.” He agreed to take a picture of me holding his bracelet, which he hopes to get repaired by a jeweler in the coming days. Mr. Z called me on Friday, August 25th, saying he was in desperate need of my services. We scheduled for the search to be the next day on September 26th. Without being too specific, I’ll just say this all occurred in Middle TN.

To make a long story short, Mr. Z’s significant other got mad at him and threw his prized solid gold and diamond bracelet off an elevated balcony, out into an open field. The open field was filled with tall weeds and had scattered piles of construction debris from adjacent construction sites. Some of that construction debris included rolls of old chain link fencing, concrete chunks and piles of old big rig tires that had been cut and flattened out. Just when I thought the search couldn’t get any tougher, Mr. Z explained that before his beloved bracelet was thrown off the balcony out into this mess of a field, he added that his significant other had broken the bracelet into pieces.

I was mentally and physically prepared for this to be an all day or even a multi day search, but luckily I picked the right area to start the search. The HF2 coil on my XP Deus 2 metal detector is not only operating under very high frequencies, which is best suited for finding lower conductive metals, like gold, but the narrow elliptical shape allowed me to fit the coil into the some very tight places. And it was in those very tight places that I found Mr. Z’s lost bracelet links. Total search time was less than fifteen minutes.

It’s normal for most people to withhold some of the embarrassing details of how their jewelry or other items are lost. I do my best to only ask those questions that are necessary for me to formulate a search plan that will have the absolute highest odds of me locating their lost item(s). If you or someone you know has lost (accidentally or intentionally) jewelry out in a yard, field, park, in the water, or other similar location, go to TheRingFinders website, click on LOCATE A RING FINDER, and see who is available in your area. Remember there are some Ring Finders out there, like me, that have traveled great distances to search for people’s lost items. The only way to know for sure is to ask.

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Jackson found my contact information online and called me in late July 2026 regarding his wife’s lost pendant. He said it came loose from the thin gold chain necklace and fell between the front passenger seat and center console of their car back in April of 2025. The pendant was a gift from her grandmother, so it was very sentimental to her. Jackson and his wife, Elizabeth, spent hours looking under, in between and around the seats for the pendant, but were never able to see it, but were still very confident that it was still there. They had even used a vacuum several times, each time carefully inspecting what the vacuum sucked up, but still no pendant.

In talking with Jackson, I learned that his workplace was just a few miles from my home and I asked if he would be willing to bring his car to my house so I could use my endoscope to search for the pendant. He agreed and showed up on July 28 as planned. After several minutes I was able to slide the endoscope between the underside of the carpet and the metal floor of the car and actually see the pendant. Our attempts to feed a long flexible wire with a hooked end to retrieve the pendant were unsuccessful. Not wanting to damage the pendant or his vehicle, I suggested he take the car to the dealership to have them remove the seat. On August 21st I got the text from Jackson that I been waiting for. They were on their way home from the dealership and Elizabeth’s pendant was in fact concealed deep under the carpet of the front seat. Although I wasn’t able to hand the pendant to Elizabeth myself, just knowing that I gave them the confirmation they needed to have the seat removed at the dealership works for me. This makes my 100th successful ring/jewelry recovery since I joined TheRingFinders directory in March of 2023.