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We got an axe, we tried to dull it so we could sharpen it. And the axe was stronger than the harbor freight anvil. We finally found it's match. Then we show you the proper way to sharpen an axe. Then a surprise return at the hardware store. This has got to be the best way to sharpen my axe.
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[@timramich]

An automatic whetstone! Too funny. Not enough licking happening lately.

[@radriarthenerdking2259]

Tim Ramich thirty five likes and no comments? I must end this

[@RolandtheThompsonGunner]

Definitely not enough licking happening lately.

[@1019wc1019]

Shouldve committed to the return. One time at home depot this lady checked me out and only scanned 2 of 4 of the same item. Bogo for me!

[@somethingsomething2100]

He probably got some sort of disease from licking one of the grimy items and has sworn off jt

[@bloodwolf2609]

Purchased yesterday Already blunt ahahaha

[@MrMydyn]

"How is a rock harder than an anvil?" You guys cut an anvil with rocks.

[@TheAntiSaint]

Metal is rock or is rock metal

[@eaminyashed7799]

To be scientific diamonds are the hardest metal

[@eaminyashed7799]

But you must admit that diamonds are the most expensive metal if by mass alone

[@MrMydyn]

@@eaminyashed7799 Again, diamond isn't a metal, it's a mineral, and there are much more expensive metals and minerals by mass

[@alexralph6024]

It's all about particle size, the smaller the particles the easier you can force something between them

[@OGBeefStew]

Next you should sharpen water with a 60,000 psi axe

[@UPsideDOWNworld321]

boy your a smart one

[@nowayomanwhatisthis9492]

*bookworm adventure is terrible*

[@zanderboy]

i lolled hard at this comment

[@jeromej1234]

Actually a genius idea!

[@vapecatt]

You could also sharpen your Bookworm Adventures Deluxe skills with a water jet.

[@dannykyle7950]

In case someone hasn't said it already, Harbor Freight sells cast iron anvils, not steel anvils. They are extremely soft compared to the hardened steel of the ax.

[@theswampus670]

The anvils aren't Cast Iron, they are Mild Steel.

[@2MeterLP]

makes sense. Hard also means brittle. So a really hard anvil might shatter when hit with a hammer, which you is what you do with anvils.

[@LtJerryRigg]

@@theswampus670 they are not mild steel, its definitely cast iron. That is why there are cast defects filled with bondo in their anvil cutting video

[@jamesiverson6742]

Riesenfriese they’re supposed to be very very hard and yes they can be brittle. That’s why you never hit hardened steel with hardened steel. You can break off chips that fly incredibly flat and are insanely sharp

[@theswampus670]

@@LtJerryRigg You can cast Mild Steel, Cast Iron is very Brittle and has a higher carbon content than most Steels.

[@badopinionsrighthere]

You guys are too good-natured to be rascals. The "automatic "wet" stone" was a nice touch though

[@Carnifexx141]

@Baylon frisbee *whetstones

[@a.b.5372]

@@Carnifexx141 lol grammer and spelling nazi LOL

[@Carnifexx141]

@@a.b.5372 just spelling lol

[@bobbypatton4903]

"how do we dull this axe?" (While standing on concrete slab)

[@forestswayngim8290]

So, the axe head is hardened steel and the anvil is not. The reason you don't harden the anvil is so a hammer hitting it won't send flakes of metal everywhere.

[@forestswayngim8290]

@Roderick storey thanks for a polite correction (not sarcastic). The best way to get the right answer on the internet is to give a wrong one and wait for someone to set you straight ;)

[@isaacb2016]

Also a Harbor freight anvil is cast iron not steel

[@ZeronayLarane]

Thank you. I actually learned something today

[@themadsmith857]

My anvil from 1815 wouldn't be phased by an axe blow, harbor freight anvils are cheap junk cast iron so they're easy to damage

[@species5022]

@@isaacb2016 Actually its made of cheese

[@bradbechlyb9273]

The best part is , the store was actually going to give you your money back, or exchange it for a new one

[@OceanicJones]

@@WaterjetChannel you heard it here first, only aborted for the comments. Nah I kid, good on ya

[@pinky2502]

too late, reported

[@kirkjohnson9353]

@@WaterjetChannel So your DID take it back later

[@collinsullivan2000]

Waterjet Channel I used to work at Lowe’s, they’ll take literally anything back

[@sshep86]

Large companies like Lowes tend to have something called a nil return policy with their suppliers. Basically it would cost a shit tonne to keep returning everything back to the suppliers, so it does tend to get thrown away once returned to retail outlet. Sometimes they will send someone out to audit the returns, so you have to store them for a while before throwing away, but this costs money too, so more often than not it just goes straight in the bin/skip. Atleast, this is how it happens in the UK.

[@meta_username]

Any retail worker saying it's the weirdest transaction they've ever had... Dude.

[@bluhouse48]

Right that was pretty ordinary her job must be boring

[@future_phonk]

A log being stronger than a harbor freight anvil is not surprising at all.

[@CyraxCZ]

I facepalmed so hard when he asked how could rock be stronger than the anvil

[@JustinTopp]

I don’t think you can even call them anvils

[@Shuggahbear]

I remember my old boss would buy harbor freight tools for our shop stay away from the harbor freight specials thier stuff is cheap for a reason

[@matthiasngo]

Shouldn't he lick it to see if it's sharp?

[@snowy7976]

Not if he wants to ever use his tongue ever again

[@matthiasngo]

@@snowy7976 so its not lick test approved...

[@RolandtheThompsonGunner]

@@snowy7976 that's not true, there are people out there that have had their tongue split in half surgically, for what ever reason they thought that it would be a good life decision but now they can move both sides and still lick things.

[@MGSLurmey]

You can also perfectly safely lick a sharp thing by just licking from the flat side of the head towards the edge and coming off, never licking along the length of the blade.

[@mrbrian1969]

No he should not!

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

I hear Alec Steele crying in distance :D

[@DrakkarCalethiel]

Waterjet Channel 🤣🤣🤣

[@austinmcdermott8859]

Alec Steele is the Man

[@daffhead4975]

Alec Steele isn't a man, he looks like a 15 year old boy. Why would he need commercials for shaveing stuff?

[@kodysimpson1]

The lowes counter is a perfect place to rest a gut. The more you know.

[@baporapo5016]

kody simpson her gut or his gut?

[@kuribo1]

Yes that was actually pretty gross indeed.....

[@MayneMan8509]

It’s really awesome you guys have resources to do this. Thank you for the watch.

[@decab8292]

Watching you trying to swing that axe is painful to watch. 😂

[@thedoomofred5174]

Now shoot it out of the air cannon

[@Kelmorcellus]

"it might be a manufacturer defect..." xDDD

[@erikhendrych190]

I thought they would fix the axe perfectly vertical and tilt the jet. You can check for vertical orientation with plumb bob. If you check that both edges are alligned with the plumb bob it should be very accurate.

[@jasepoag8930]

I used to work at Lowe's. It's amazing the kind of stuff people took returns on. I worked in plumbing, and received more than one 'soiled' drain fitting back.

[@garthor]

8:00 XD "Manufacturer Defect" lolololololol OMG, I can't stop laughing! >_< How did she buy that?!?!

[@LephroBeast]

this is great free advertisement for the axe company, this blade is durable af and tough

[@jeffcutlipjr4588]

Automatic wet stone. Best description of a water jet ever.

[@electronicsNmore]

Always highly amusing to watch. :-)

[@theunprofessionals5065]

Seriously the ending was funny AF🤣🤣

[@hagenoft]

It's so funny when you return stuff! MORE PLEASE! lol

[@mr.techaky7655]

As a logger, this hurts on a spiritual level.

[@backwoodsjunkie08]

Lol same here!!

[@masonlea7870]

I log to this is sad he dont even know how to swing an axe properly

[@masonlea7870]

Who liked my comment?

[@mr.techaky7655]

@@masonlea7870 I did... and I agree. His "technique" is absolutely TERRIBLE!

[@kristopher6031]

😂 the ending was hilarious

[@bjb202]

Returning it at the ended made this video a water jet classic. Great job!

[@SentinalSlice]

Where did the clock with the time that it took to waterjet something go?

[@LostSoulsParadoxicalDoctrine]

"How is a rock harder than an anvil?" ...and the stone age man smiles with a wink and a nod.

[@jonserkspawn7776]

The end at Lowe's was great.

[@CalebDowning]

I love the return “attempt” 👍👍😂

[@sfsasdg129]

You guys are genius because this is fast sharpening without it heating up the metal so it retains its edge retention and stays dense. Heating it up causes the weakening in the metal

[@davepingel7447]

Darwin award goes to this guy chopping a rock with absolutely no eye protection.

[@2Stepzupp]

Anvils are made to be soft so that they deform when hit by a hammer, if they were hardened they'd splinter and send shrapnel flying

[@dustycook86]

Those axe swings from 00:24 - 00:50 😂

[@ryansmithza]

I love the returns!🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[@kindpotato]

To answer the question "how is a rock harder than an anvil?" because it is. Rocks are hard but don't have a lot of tensile strength. They are also more brittle than an anvil. An anvil can just deform when the axe hits it.

[@metamorphicorder]

That ax maker just got a lot of free advertising.

[@AgentRikuOfficial]

Awe, Lowe's. Can't wait to work almost anywhere else xD

[@Kellanium]

You guys are dorks and make me laugh every time. thank you for being dorks on youtube

[@PrimalRenegade17]

"Yeh I have this like automated wet stone....thats uh supposed tos sharpen it"

[@dougiefresh7475]

Funniest part ever is when they try to return things. Like the chainsaw

[@gustavgnoettgen]

Rock is generally harder but more brittle than steel. You could break a diamond plate relatively easily. You need tough materials for anvils that stick together if you strike it, the hardness is needed but secondary. That's why you never strike hardened steel with a hammer... It can loose shrapnel

[@hanbill]

You guys made her day

[@randomcanadian6298]

People seem to think that when you use an anvil, you're working with cold and hardened steel. If you're doing that or hitting an anvil with nothing on it, you're doing something horribly wrong already.

[@keirakain]

Should have said so I was just cutting my anvil with my axe and the head started splitting not sure why ?

[@The_Gray_Fox947]

Would be interesting to see something cut after being coated with a water proof spray or other type of water seals

[@LasVegasFlicks]

Yup.

[@Fazorplays]

When hitting the anvil i would be scared because some metal could fly off and hit me in either a nuts or my eyes but mostly eyes

[@photolabguy]

Craig is the man! More Craig please!

[@crimsonhalo13]

You're not a true Viking until you've shaved with your axe.

[@dusty_playz2783]

if you cut a log sideways you cut a v shape into it like you hit one way going down one line of the v then you go down the other line of the v and keep alternating so its removing material you also want the v sretty wide

[@Cb138inRs]

That ending was hilarious

[@Jaffacaked83]

7:45 that stomach resting on the counter lol

[@colnz1233]

Ahhh rocks, natures anvil.

[@roman.venica]

Best part when they try to return it 😂

[@killiniix2243]

Anvils are made softer then tool steel to prevent bounce back and sparking if you hit the anvil and not the piece you’re working with. I think I heard it somewhere on KZbin don’t hate me please

[@mxdwnfrcemdia]

1:57 When you're playing Rust and you think that you can gather materials from every rock you see.

[@bensufengyang]

"that's a very hard rock" proceeds to crack rock in half..

[@hinz1]

What, no lick test to see wether it's sharp? The end was hilarious, btw. Manufacturing defect, muhaha

[@yashuab.2979]

At 5:07 I heard him say butter, someone might be hungry

[@mbainrot]

hahahahaa you nearly got a return for it hahahahahahha good on you for not following through :) though would have loved to see the manufacturers face when they saw "an automatic whetstone?! what kind of???? whatt the????? ummm whaaaaaaaat???!!!"

[@ryangagnon5489]

The reason why the ask was cutting into the Anvils because the Axe it’s made out of hardened heat treated steel with a very high carbon content while the anvils like most are made out of mild steel which has a pretty low carbon content And they aren’t hardened because it would be extremely inefficient

[@TheBlockStreet]

FYI anvils are bottom lead & top iron. so the axe might have been cutting lead.

[@susanwill3134]

I almost didn't watch the part at Lowe's. 😂🤣

[@guilhermemorais8084]

5:53 there is some spark man

[@EthanDiiulio]

Now I want to see someone cut an anvil with an axe

[@VaguelySynthetic]

Used to work for Lowe's. That's far from the weirdest transaction I've seen or heard of.

[@210johndeere]

I work at Lowe's and you should see some of the bull crap we except as returns. Some of the stuff that comes in should never be accepted as a return

[@knifemare7580]

the reason that the anvil was weaker might be because the anvil was possibly either iron or steel and the axe from the look I think is hardened steel

[@loganlutz5396]

Such good guys they ruined the blade and didn't want it to be wasted :)

[@dublime420]

Steel is only a 6 on the mohs scale a lot of bedrock depending on it's makeup (quartzite mainly quoting) is 6.5 to 7.5 on mohs scale so it'll wreck steel

[@brent2974]

You guys should try this again with the new water jet

[@Advance493]

Many rocks are harder than steel. It doesn't make them better blades since they are still quite brittle, but it's the reason whetstones are used to sharpen steel.

[@austinshapard8832]

2:02 literally me when I run outta pics

[@fearlessferrousfire]

Send me a half of that anvil and I will blacksmith on it. Or the rock, sense it is I harder😂

[@nydrm90]

This time on the water jet, they learn that most stones are much harder than steel

[@gabrielc6252]

2:10 rock / sand / silica / glass have almost always a higher hardness compared to metals ... but they are more brittle

[@Joshua79C]

big difference from ductile (soft and quite pliable, will break before it blows apart in an explosive like manner) and tensile (harder and less easily bent, will crack apart once it has reach max bending limit thus why you see the previous WTC with lots of cracked off pieces), thus why cast iron is considered a ductile metal and used in some types of piping as well as for anvils hence they are easy to cut as seen with a hardened steel axe.

[@charrlos3108]

1:10 of course it will, it’s Harbour’s anvil.

[@codyscoolprogects814]

Anvils are not made with hardened still to prevent ingeryes in the shop

[@mitchellmacdonald1116]

the anvil is cast iron which is really soft, so a hardened steel axe shouldn't be affected by it

[@dannypstl423]

I'm glad she thought that was weird.

[@Justin_Ebright]

Confusious says you cannot easily split previously soaking wet now frozen log. Also says, it's a log, not a baby, you do not need to pamper it's butt when trying to split it.

[@chiefusb465]

That was probably the sissiest axe swing of all time.

[@SaraDawn08]

Anvils a a softer steel so that they can take the blows of the hammer and not warp.

[@neopolitan1346]

That feeling when a rock does more to your axe than a steel anvil 😗👌

[@thomasgladwin2975]

It was cast iron

[@pacificnorthwestnative5050]

Buying an anvil at harbor freight is like buying a steak at the dollar store!! Just because the sell em. Does not mean u should buy it.. I remember several months back the anvil even had a defect!! Lol it was like butter

[@63256325N]

Thanks for the video.

[@Anonarchist]

'How is a rock harder than an anvil?' Harbor Freight, ladies and gentlemen...

[@flubbernugget888888]

"that's a very hard Rock." Arnt all rocks pretty damn hard?

[@HAM-qi6de]

As someone who studie rocks NO

[@TheTheRandomShow1234]

Lmfao that trip to lowes

[@RakkaSan7219]

Rock harder then a rock......haha Looked like AF meteorite

[@Veritas-invenitur]

Any way you can do another video where you sharpen both sides of the blade.

[@TheProfessordank]

Automatic whetstone!😂

[@egominer5624]

i loved the end xD

[@austingannoe6032]

Is it ironic that I get an ad for products that are cut with a waterjet on the waterjet channels videos

[@daffhead4975]

Anvils are not hardend steel, they are supposed to be soft. Otherwise the anvil or the hammer would explode when you hit it. Rocks are just hard.

[@Legend_Killers_Incorperated]

You can dull it very quickly if it it is in sand or dirt

[@REAPERofCali]

The end lol