Working with pallet wood

[Ttrees]

I imagine that's the bees knees of detectors being adjustable.
I bought a security wand that seems slightly better than a really cheap one for walls.
After hitting a few nails with your tools you might get better using it (hammer)
I make sure to hoke around any holes with some sacrificial screwdrivers made into chisels and make square holes for plugging so I can make sure any metal is gone, but that is hardwood and worth the time to me.
You might deem a plug cutter set to be adequate for bigger holes so you can clean out any remnants of metal and plug at the same time.

Tom

 

[LoveMonkey]

Thanks Tom,

It's alright for larger pieces of metal, such as a broken off nail, but I can set it up to as sensitive as possible, wave it around a hole several times in several directions and get nothing, then poke a drill bit through the hole and find one of the slithers mentioned. Perhaps I am expecting too much as I am new to metal detection, and if that is as good as I can hope for then I think the way forward will be to use the Little Wizard 2 to detect any larger metal that has been concealed and then drill through all of the holes anyway, just in case. That's pretty much what I have been doing anyway up to now.

I've looked at plug cutters, but for now I don't have any large holes to deal with so I've got that on the back burner.

Thanks again