I made a new detecting shovel last week. Nothing fancy. The handle is 1/2" black pipe and the shovel head part is from a piece off of an industrial bandsaw blade that was about 8-9 inches wide. It's 36" long. I welded the pipe straight to the head without the gooseneck like the Sampsons. My welding ability is pretty poor but so far it's holding together. I used it yesterday and pryed some pretty big pieces of iron up with no ill effects.
