My 16 year old son 3D printed me a 9 inch TURBOPAN that fits easily in my pack, it only took 4 hours to print. Love your channel, its very helpful.

Great idea for a series. Not everybody can afford some of the desired equipment. I made a lot of my brewing gear when I first started brewing beer. Also helps to keep the creative juices going when you're in a pinch. "What do I already have that can be repurposed? "

If you really want a custom pan you can get one 3D printed. A sintered print would be the best option but it’s not going to be a cheap print. You will get your own custom pan if you take the time to design one in something like Fusion360. The most printed thing I’ve found tends to be sluice designs. I'd be particularly interested in seeing a video about some of the old drywashers people built.

This is going to be great. I can't wait for the sluice box or high bank section. Thank you.

I use a 15 inch Avedis crash cymbal for panning only because that's what I started out with.

Chris Ralph, You're gold Bro Bro! I love All your videos. I've learned so much from you and Jeff Williams. I'm a truck driver who started to prospect in every gold district I drive through. Thanks 😁

I grabbed a decent sized plastic bowl from the dollar store (along with some strainers and makeshift snuff bottles) gonna modify it a bit with a dremmel. Seeing all these different kinds of pans is super helpful, new to all this, lookin for something fun to do while Fishing with live bait 😁

Excited for this series!

Great video and gona be a great series. You are 100% right in a pinch you can repurpose almost anything to do the task at hand.

Very insightful channel, thank You. I learn something new from every video of yours I watch. I plan on ordering that journal you shared information about, and I’m retired now and I plan on getting out and doing some hobby prospecting. My first two years I was blessed to be able to take care of my 32 year old son, who battled a brain tumor, we moved him back home to Indiana from Colorado and he passed away in July. I know he’ll be looking over my shoulder into my pan on my outings Please keep up the great work. God Bless. D. M.

Thanks, Chris. I was going to buy a pan but you just made me realize I already have one. It's an enamel wash basin that's about the same size as the ones you showed being used. My copy of your book just arrived today. 👍

Another good and informative, video, Chris. Thanks for sharing your knowledge with all of us. Great book, by the way, I think everyone that is interested in Gold Prospecting would find it a great buy... Keep up the Awesome Work, my friend.

If I may: the round metal pans are usually spun, not pressed. The very subtle concentric pattern on the surface and the rolled bead are telltales of this very "simple" and common process (working with a lathe, wood forms and a skilled worker is quicker and cheaper than enormous hydraulic presses and hardened steel molds). Pretty interesting technology in itself. A gold pan being spun: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/nqiWdJRk2sDbeqs.html

Thank you for sharing this video really teaching many of us. Great job From Morocco

I have located an unrecorded hot spring system here in Eastern Washington. It erupts when small earth quakes activate the unrecorded local hot spring river system. Plus, in the hot springs system, there are very rare malleable nickle/iron, with many other elements, small nuggets traveling in the system underground. Also, there is electrum gold particles traveling in the hot spring river system. You may find this very interesting. I hope to hear from you soon.

Some of the best content on the Tube! Mr. Ralph surely knows what he is talking about and the information and knowledge is greatly appreciated! I hope to one day put coarse gold in his palm that he helped me find :) thanks much

I'm surprised you didn't mention 3d printing!! I 3d print alot of my accessories. Scoops, pans, header boxes, and mats.

Great stuff Chris...

That was a really fun video. Great job Chris.

Thanks Chris for sharing and looking forward to your upcoming series. I enjoy watching and learning from your videos and from reading your "Fist s Full of Gold", book, it's a joy to read. Chris I wanted to let you know that I am a subscriber and have the "all notifications" turned on, but recently I have not been getting any of your new videos notifications when you post new videos, and I don't know why I am not receiving any of your new videos now, I used to, but not now for some reason. The only way that I can currently see your videos, is just by chance when I open up KZfaq. and I'm actually look to see if you have posted any new ones now. Just wanted to let you know. Thanks again for sharing with the rest of us out here. Respectfully dd

I got a collapsible shovel that could be used in a bind

Very informative, tnx for shearing with us. 👍

Great video. Thanks for sharing this gold pan info.😎👍👍👌👌⛏⛏

You always have a fun video to watch. I saw one guy use a frisbee once

Thank you for everything

Great teacher! Obrigado Chris. João from Brazil

Thanks Chris very educational video good for the beginners ,

I used a plastic plant pot saucer I had lying around untill I got a proper gold pan.🧐🤔💡 It had ridges up the sides and sections on the bace like the mess pan you showed. 🤪 Preferred it to the new unseasoned gold pan at first once i finally got one .🤷‍♀️

I liked the info on gold pans. Heard one guy using his metal dinner plate... thanks, Chris.....

Lol ...I’d love to see YOU take the horn off of a bull! The way you said, “ they simply took a horn off of a bull...” I cracked up wondering who came up with that...and how long he lived afterward! 😂⚡️🎯🙀🍺

Great information again thanks Chris!

Thanks Chris...!

I like a lot of flossicker's ideas like his black sand magnet trap idea and a few others

Good information sir thank you very much Sir.

I enjoy your your different topics friend

nice thank you for sharing.

I'm only new to all this and have a question what is the black stuff that sinks to the bottom with the gold. Great show 💜

Clearly explained TQ very much sir

Hello Chris, Your channel is awesome! I recently moved to Las Vegas and would like to start prospecting. Do you take people with you?

In all honesty, I started panning with a small plastic oil catch basin I picked up from my local auto parts store for like $4. I had bought it to change the oil in my lawnmower, but then noticed flakes of gold in some sand and it got repurposed.

Hi Chris. Went detecting rushworth Vic, just started detecting. I got there only to find I left a cable. Oh well. Checked out the bush land. Boy, I did not realise who big it was. Its was so large.. I have found my first nugget. 2.86g. Whow what a feeling. Its raining this week but I try to get out. There lots to see in Victoria. Lots of good history. If anyone coming, you need to check the derege at Eldorado near wangaratta. North east. Near boarder to Vic and NSW. Its a site, also include, maldon, Bendigo and Ballarat, there is a theme park. No real rides. But you go back what it's like in Victoria gold rush. See you in the fields Russell

Great idea for a series, Chris !! I'm looking forward to it, considering I like to build stuff. Best gold pan out there is the one that works for you. I prefer the green square one (Maverick Pan) for sluice cons, and the Garrett Super Sluice for testing material. Thanks for sharing tips and ideas ! BTW, check out Vo-Gus Prospecting. He posted an excellent video on how to convert a stream into a poor man's sluice.

yes, good, thanks

G'Day Chris. What a great idea. I think the gold pan could have had some Chinese origins based from their cooking Wok. Looking forward to your future videos. Cheers

Excellent video thanks for making videos it was real video 👍👍👍👍

Two things are not available anywhere; 1. DIY gold pan with riffles & 2. How to connect wires of NOKTA GOLD KRUZER COIL to the main unit (which wire goes with which pin?) if that is possible to you. Grateful to you for all of your highly informative vids.👍

It's fun to make my own

I acculy use a mess-tray my area isnt known for gold. So i didnt want to spend the money, but i had 5 mess trays i bought at a yard sale so i use that

At one point I found a wash tub that has rifles in them and I remade it into a cleanup systym

Thanks Chris this is amazing and look forward to the series!

I really appreciate this video god bless you I have no good plan I am from Nigeria Franca Frances I'm a new come here I hope I will like you ♥️👍

You could probably use a pie tin too.

Gold Pans !!!!

What an AMAZEBALLS idea m8! 👏 Super excited to follow along. If you have time love your opinion on our beach mining. Latest video shows it pretty well, any advice be super nice! ❤ Cheers indeed, Heidi n Conan Gold Prospecting ⛏🍀

Hello Mr. Ralph. I'd like to know your opinion for prospecting in Turkey, getting a gpz7000 worth it ?

Am frm uganda thank u so mach

I even paned using a shovel at one time 😂

Hi Chris!! I tried to buy your book on Amazon but it is unavailable. Any other way to purchase your book? Thank you!! Leslie

I looked for your book on Amazon , Used copies are going for hundreds of dollars. Are you going to do another printing ?

A hub cap can work well to

Correction, the cost of a mold for injection production is in the 10s of thousands to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

How are you doing I am new at this and I live in Michigan 😢😢 I know not the best place to be looking for gold but it is what it is and that's where I'm at so you think if I purchase your book it would help me in this state of Michigan I know the Black sands of Time lake Superior but I'm down here in the Bass lake Huron St Clair River so if you think it will really improve my chances give me your honest opinion and I'll go from there's and then if it's all good I'll buy your book thank you for your time I hope you have a blessed day and a pan for gold

Where did you get your bipod for your detector?

I’ve been using a drain pan for plants it’s plastic

❤️ From Kerala

Can you please make a shaking table for gold

God blees u sir

Hey Chris im in Rodalquilar, Almería, Spain, how could i send you some photos to see if you can recognise a ninja gold ore? Thank you!!!

I love your videos but this wasn’t what the people is expecting you didn’t show or teach how we can make a pan

Hey chris...I love your videos... I thank you for all your knowledge... this has nothing to do with this video... in the past I had seen a video of you saying switching sticks dont work... jeff Williams can make them work... and I have been using them for years... I'm retired at 47... I have a lil nest egg built up... would you be willing to wager on a live video... someone we dont know... say copper gold and silver in the sand... maybe 25 yards away from us... say we bet $100k ... are you so sure they dont work? Because I will guarentee if we bet who can find them faster... your intuition against my witching sticks sir... you will surely lose... I respect you so I did say sir... I k ow nothing compared to you with gold... I do try... but you have superior knowledge... because you cant make something work... doesnt mean nobody cant sir... would you like to wager on it sir? I will put my money where my mouth is... are you willing to back up your belief? I will take 2 metal coat hangers... cut them in front of you... and you will be amazed and I will be 100k richer sir... I have been doing it for years... not everyone can do it...I will say this... if you can master it... theres not a better way of finding gold... they point the way... when I'm over metals or water... basically things that ground to the earth the best... my rods.. even coat hangers will cross... are you willing to make a bet sir?

Is it pyrite what looks like flat squares on a rock? Its not cubic but is it gold?

Romans made their goldpans out of wood, I do not know what type, but by two we saw in a museum, looks like oak.

I use frieng pans

I start with my Wok

This is gold, as seen on one of your videos, correct?

Chris Ralph...When silence is Not golden 😅

We need to put you in charge of Bureau Of Land Management

Since you have so many gold pans, could you send me one? I really want to pan in the river by my house with my 12-year-old son and am researching ways to make a gold pan with zero money

Grease wil work for diamonds though if there's diamonds grease up 💎😂

There were many coins at that spot

I think I might be able to help you with this "pan-Pam" dilemma.....

Look up Dan Hurd he teaches you a lot

This guy ttipin I can 3d print and make molds outa sand

I would imagine that you would wait to keep it light. What you pack in your going to need to pack out. Exspeacly if you find a LOT of heavy gold to pack out also. WE CAN DREAM NOW, CAN'T WE. THE LITTLE EAGER BEAVER I AM. LOL 😛😸😸👍

If you want to come to Sri Lanka to search for gold, we have our team

End of the world Gold starting to show them self upon the surface.

you can join a club and win a pan for $1. raffle ticket. ( i have seen this at keene engineering) pat is a gpaa chapter pres. or me. you find what you like. the garret super sluice and the minelab 10 inch pan.

I design my own dredges

I'm from Canada I found bedrock that seems to.be promising was wondering if you had email i could email.you pics and you might be able to.tell.me what it is

HOw to make a gold pan: Don't, just look around for something that looks like a gold pan. No shit.

20$ to make manu

Need turkish

Lol, why?

If I didn't have a wife I would have a lot more than I do.....🤣

this is not a gold pan making vid !!

You need to change the title of this video to "Types of gold pans and the history of gold pans". You have to skip to the end to see DIY gold pans