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..........when you are holding it with jewelers tweezers......and it goes "p-TING!" across the room........

OH NO!!!!!!!!!

Unfortunately, I know that sound all too well.

and then after the "p-TING!" usually a "tik - tik - tiktiktik" as it bounces hither and yon faster than you eyes can see...

And the vacuum cleaner will find it without ever letting you know that it did.

Clay

If this happens over shag carpet then you are royally screwed. This makes a strong argument for using blue sapphires instead of clear ones -- they might show up better on the floor.

After the p-TING, I'd be saying !@#$%^&*!!
Harvey Kravitz

Can't pigs be trained to find these things, like they are trained to find truffles?

I lost a sapphire on my workbench once, I took packing tape and taped every square inch of it until i finally found it stuck to a piece of the tape.

Plink. The tweezers snap shut. Then, listen
for it.....tick tick (in the distance).

Last time that happened to me it was a recorder
cutter.

It took me three hours of searching under bright light, down on my hands and knees until I found it. It was hiding just off the edge of the carpet, wedged down between carpet and baseboard barely visible.

But, I had looked everywhere else and after
all, everything has to be somewhere and there it was.

I feel your pain though, that sound means
lots of time looking....

Chuck

I have been down this road, and it usually was the harder to obtain recording stylus also.