As a lab tech, I was pretty surprised of the quality. It is actually made of some kind of metal. It’s not as heavy as hospital grade but it’s still pretty sturdy. The lens look decent. I like that you can connect this to a monitor. It actually has immersion oil provided as well. The forceps feel pretty strong too. I like that it includes slides and glass covers. Although it would have been neat if they provided some stained slides. I would definitely gift this to someone who is into science.

This needs to be pretty close to the metal in order to trigger the detector. This is very portable, because it's small and packs away in a bag, so it would be great for going to the beach. It's a little hard to use on the ground (I had to crouch). You also need to be pretty close to the metal and this would not detect gold when the gold was on top of the plate, but not all metal detectors do.

My five year old got this for Christmas. I hid quarters and some other objects for us to find. The detector did not detect the quarters, but it did find many other things. Lots of things were too deep for us to find. I did not expect the detector to detect things so deep. This product is a lot of fun. We can't wait to take it to the beach. However, it is NOT waterproof. Be careful.

My seven year old granddaughter loves her metal detector and has had hours of fun.

Great metal detector!

I clearly watch far too much searching for gold programmes as I expected this to actualy have a metal deetctor inside lol. This is exactly why you should read the description, look at the price and most of all use your common sense, everything i did not do when ordering this.
I live in the uk, regualrly go metal deetcting on the beach with my children so I know exactly how messy metal detecting can get and the fact we do not get fine gold over here like they do in the tv programmes lol.
This may seem a basic bit of kit, basically a sieve and a shovel but both parts are light weight and plastic so not exactly heavy and so very portable.
Great invention, so simple and effective although it's not without it's flaws.
I use it mainly on the beach which is perfect when the sand is dry but when it;s wet it does tend to clog up so do be awre of this and maybe take a twig or something you can find to keep it clog free.
Al in alla good bit of equipment for any amateir metal detector

I just felt that I need to share this story and I am sure many won't believe it. I should have asked my son what lottery numbers to pick yesterday. His RM Ricomax metal detector had just been delivered and I helped him assemble it and set it to the right settings. I was upstairs working and saw him out my window digging in a hole in my front yard. He was at it for about 20 minutes since the generic carrot pinpointer I have is not super precise. Next thing I know he yells out, "I found a ring! I found a gold ring!". Of course I thought that their was no way. I go downstairs and he comes running in the house with a dirty gold ring. I still didn't believe it and figured it was brass or junk but at a closer look it had a 24k marking on it. My jaw hit the floor. It weighed in at about 6g. I just wish I would have video recorded his first dig as it would have been awesome to get find and that reaction on video. I still can't believe it and he was on cloud 9 and is still there. Anyway, I feel like this story speaks for itself as a review. The RM Ricomax is light and easy to use. It is nice that it also has a pinpoint feature built in to help narrow down a find. I would recommend it to anyone.

After putting in our pool my 6 year old granddaughter lost 1 of her gold earrings in the mound of dirt that came out of the hole. We didn't realize she lost it until 2 days later after the dig so I ordered this metal detector to help find it. We found the earring about a week later buried in the dirt about 4" down on the side of the mound. We have found many other things also so I would say this one's a winner for beginners. Easy to assemble and take down for storage in the bag included.