5 AMAZINGLY Bad Tools You Probably Own 

"This universal socket is terrible" "Oh, its working"

A steel isn't for sharpening. It's for honing. Maintaining an edge

I'm never had or gonna have a hedge - these things never work for me. That's because they are hedge clippers...

Makes fun of stud finders and people using them to find studs in walls. Uses bent copper rods to locate water and power underground using magic

5 Tools I Assumed Were AMAZINGLY Bad Until I Actually Tried USING Them

"5 AMAZINGLY decent tools that I have no idea how to use"

"Sharpening" steels are used to KEEP sharp knives sharp. They were never meant to work on a dull knife. Stud finders work fine. Hedge trimmers are for trimming hedges, and thin stuff like vines. They are not Pruning shears.

"FOUR USEFUL TOOLS YOU SHOULD HAVE AROUND YOUR HOUSE PLUS I MAKE FUN OF A 50 YEAR OLD LAMP I STOLE FROM A HOMLESS PERSON"

3 incredibly useful and good tools that I just don’t know how to use, and 2 others that would have been amazing 80 years ago but have been replaced

So paused for a second the “knife sharpener” he talks about in the video is not a knife sharpening device it basically just removes any burrs or tough edges on the blade doesn’t sharpen it it is called a honer and all it is supposed to do is remove anything from the blad that could cause a rough cut it’s not supposed to sharpen. I can’t blame him I just wanted to clarify because I just learned this at my new job

Says stud finders dont work, but believes devining rods can find waterline with pure willpower. Sure thing my man

The like to dislike ratio is a good representation of the quality of the video

Knife steels aren’t for sharpening. They’re for honing. If you know how to do it well, and do it regularly, it keeps edges straight, not sharp. For the uninitiated, sharpening removes metal, and honing will true up the very tip of an edge that is prone to folding over.

Uhm... my stud finder works just fine. Used it dozens of times and it works every time. 🤷‍♂️

This video should be called "my wife and I using the wrong tools for the job" 😂

I worked in a restaurant as a prep cook and the guy who trained me was an old Turkish dude who would sharpen his knifes on the back of a plate.

That's my life summed up. Everything works when others are watching.

That's not a sharpener, it's a honer. It does nothing to sharpen your knife, instead it makes it straighter.

back in the early 2000s, I built a subwoofer box using a yankee screwdriver and philips head screws. It actually worked great imo.

Socket works, he still doesn't recommend it. Thanks Rangle Star.

Wow, you sold me on that universal socket, I gotta get me one of those!

1) I've never used a Yankee Screwdriver so I can't say. 2) Stud finders do work. 3) Trubel lights are still commonly used. Most hardware stores still sell Rough Service Bulbs. 4) A knife steel is designed to straighten the edge of a blade. It does not sharpen metal. 5) Universal sockets work... Not perfectly but they do work.

The knife steel is hard to learn without guidance, but if you look at even the most basic of images that explain it, it is quite easy to learn. It took met about 30 minutes to get it right. P.S. only use it for knives that already have an edge.

The lamp is actually used very often by reptile owners

Our next item....a spoon.. I mean.. really.. this thing is terrible..What am I supposed to do with it.. It couldn't possibly help me eat soup....Oh wait....it works perfectly...never mind

anyone remember the saying "A bad workman blames his tools"

I remember looking up "what ratcheting screwdriver was in Breaking Bad?" when i saw that thing I thought it was so cool

"Oh i have used a universal socket once, and now it is in the top 5 of my Amazingly Bad tools" LOL

"Here is some tools i dont know how to use"

as an electrician i have a stud finder and it works wonders....

In a tool sense the knife steel may not hold much value, but in a kitchen it is used to hone the blade before every use. it straitens the steel and knocks of any imperfections, it does not "sharpen" because it does not take off any material. Its function is actually very similar to that of leather strop, and in fact can actually be used as a replacement for a strop if necessary.

Those long sheers arnt really used for thicker , more woodsy branches it's more for lots of small sprigs off a bush or small tree, I use them alot on bushes to get the shape right

There are actually six tools featured in this video and only one of them is amazingly bad.

So, uhm, your friend is in the knife maintenance business and his first move is to tell his customers to throw away their in-house knife maintenance tools. What could have motivated this advice?

Universal stud finder: Lay a flashlight beam across the wall, the slightly different heights at the screw heads will stand out clear as day.

You've convinced me! I'm getting a Yankee screwdriver and a Grizzly universal socket

This video is so much better if you read the comments at the same time!

99% operator error.......

7:22 "no one knows how to use them" Me: laughs in brazilian. Everyone and their grandma has one of those since it's so common for brazilians to grill, and our knifes go dull and EVERYONE in brazil knows how to use those

Concerning the universal socket: it's obviously never going to be the best tool for the job, but I've found that it is so versatile that it is absolutely worth having as it will fit almost everything you put it on. Getting it perfectly centered is pretty difficult, but if you're careful it'll work sufficiently enough to get the job done.

Good old misconceptions on the butcher's steel... lets clear some up: 1) Butcher's steels don't hone (unless they're ceramic or diamond coated) they burnish. Honing is an abrasive process, burnishing is not. 2) Most cheap butcher's steels are useless because they are either too soft (chrome plated instead of hard chrome plated) or too coarse (most professional butcher's steels have very shallow grooves that are only slightly grabby; some are even polished) or both. 3) Butcher's steels work best with blades that are not very hard, viz butcher's knives and low end to mid range kitchen knives. Using a butcher's steel on a very hard blade might cause chipping of the edge (a very hard blade might even catch on / slightly cut into the surface of a cheap butcher's steel that's too soft). 4) Butcher's steels can be used to touch up a knife that has lost its bite, but it won't bring back a completely dull edge. 5) Using a butcher's steel will work harden the edge (like bending a palerclip to and fro), so it cannot be touched up indefinitly. At some point you'll need to grind a new edge removing the stressed steel.

so from what ive seen... your yankee screw driver works... electronic stud finders work great if you find both sides of the stud and send it in the center, better than puttin wholes everywhere, tellin me you bought a cheap lamp, a knife steel is not for sharpening.... its for honing, u use it before u use the knife everytime and it keeps your edge straing.... it will not sharpen, the socket u turned around on and decide was pretty good, you hate a tool (hedge clippers) that does a great job at what it was intended for .... simply because you dont want a hedge im dissapointed

The “sharpening steel” is actually a honing steel. It doesn’t particularly sharpen your knife. It realigns the edge, bring it to the center. Keeping a sharp knife sharp for a long time. I use it everytime I use my blade and I have only had to sharpen my knife once. I’ve had it for two years

I have never been let down by my stud finder I've used since 2014, and those universal sockets aren't recommended but as somebody who works on their own cars often I have to admit that it has saved me over a dozen times. These are items you have to spend quality money on to get quality results. Your other three items are from 80's, of course time shave changed. Also the loppers work very well if you use them for their specified purposes.

You don't "sharpen" a knife with a knife steel. You uncurl the edge. Has always worked for me. I mean, it only works to some extent. If the knife is dull it's dull but if you just sharpened it and hit the cutting board a few times and it got dull(er) you flick out the knife steel and have a few go arounds and you can cut tomatoes again :)

Five amazing tools I personally own AND can actually use correctly. There's much truth in the old saying 'A poo(r) workman always blames his tools.'

Almost all stud finders have wrong settings by default. They are way to insensitive. There is usually a small screw hidden somewhere under the plastic that you can turn to increase the sensitivity. Have one of the cheapest Stanley myself, worked fine after i turned the screw on the side under the grip.

Those hedge clippers. If you look carefully, right near the pivot point, there is a sort of "notch" in the blades. That will cut through branches up to about 1/2 inch thick. I know this, because I just used my dad's old pair to clear a load of stuff from my garden. Worked perfectly. Like all these tools, you just have to know how and where to use them.

Here's my grungy antique light from the 60's that I f'ed up at some point......I hate it!

I salute you in your bravery to post this. Most of those tools, you've used wrong.

Some of these things have limitations like the multisocket but good in a pinch sometimes for odd shaped fasteners. Stud finders work fine for me, if you're not using them not sure how you're locating studs. Hopes and prayers? Also handy when you're not familiar with a house and how it's constructed. Went to place a flush mount inset tp holder in someone's bathroom, only one wall next to the toilet. No matter where I placed the stud finder around the most typical mount location it kept indicating an obstruction. A rather wide one (much wider than a stud) and vertical as well. Unsure of what was in the interior wall I cut carefully into the drywall, discovered there was a heating duct right there where I didn't expect to find one. Had I just pitched it thinking 'this thing doesn't work' I'd have slammed right into the duct and cut it all to hell. Gotta be smarter than the tool sometimes.

Stud finders are amazing. You just need to find the edge of the stud from each side. So take the finder, wipe L-R, to find left edge of stud, mark it. Then wipe R-L to find right edge, mark. The two marks represent where the stud is.

The steel rod isn't meant for sharpening a knife, it's meant for honing it (taking the burrs off after sharpening). You're using it wrong, that's why it doesn't work.

If you’re using a honing steel to sharpen a knife then I assume you’re using chisels to open paint tins also.

"I have 5 tools I have no idea how to use, let's make a video and prove I dont know anything" Fyi. I own or have used all of these. Stud finders work EVERY time if you know how. Yank screwdriver is a great tool if you can get a Robertson bit. Which i do. Work lights have always been dodgy and prone to wearing out. But they are cheap. When I was framing we would hang them and use them on a job and just junk them when we were done. Buy new on the next job. The clippers need to be cleaned and cared for with each use and will never let you down if you use them on what you're supposed to use them on. Every tool on this list is great if you use it properly and with skill.

Yankee screwdrivers are amazing for removing screws. It helps to prevent the head from stripping out cause your pushing down on it. I use it for maintaining vintage machines like mills and lathes, etc.

Video should be called 5 tools i don't know how to use

Thats a knife honing rod. Its meant to bring the edge of the blade back into alignment and straighten it out. Unless the blade is properly sharpened on a stone, a honing rod isnt going to help much.

"They've got the built in clamp right. The clamp, clamps onto things, and then you clamp it onto something" 👌🤣

Wrangler star: reviewing tools he’s had for probably 10 years+

The "HONING" steel would work just fine if you used it properly. its not meant to sharpen your knives its meant to realign the edge of your blade. if you use them every time you use your knife as well as wash, dry, and store your knife properly it will last a long time before it needs sharpening. A job that is meant for a wet stone.

I believe the old saying "A bad workman always blames his tools" has never been more apt. I only counted one useless tool in the video, and it was wearing a tanktop (actually, I'll take that back - a tool is useful...)

The Yankee Screwdriver is probably my most favourite tool to keep in a car! Never actually used it as a screwdriver, my dad had the great idea of modifying a drill bit to make it a hand-powered drill! :-) I've done quite a few ziptie jobs on cars with it, and a few other odd times that it was the only drill available. My car was broken into and my original one was stolen, but was lucky enough to find 2 that were even nicer at an antique shop which was great.

That universal socket is so good, it's such a good idea which you could just improve on yourself.

Title should read “5 tools I’m too dumb to use”

Fifty years ago, my uncle was a wiz with a Yankee screw driver. It was amazing to watch.

I love the honesty!! Things dont always turn out as expected!!

I get that most of the issues he has is lack of a particular skill with the tools but Cody said at the beginning that it’s his opinion and for a person with the skill set he has they are terrible. Just as somebody who isn’t skilled in chopping might think it’s stupid to have an axe when you have a chainsaw.

I have a "stud finder". Nearly 20 years old. Works FANTASTIC! Finds the CENTER of a stud very accurately. A "steel" hone is NOT for sharpening a knife. They merely remove the microscopic "burrs" on the knife from regular use. They MUST be used frequently. A professional chef has one hanging off his/her belt constantly.

Exactly the kind of quality tool information I expect from a man in a sweater vest.

I always thought that the stud finder was only for making terrible dad jokes?

Wranglerstar - I've just come across you in the last month or two (2021). so I'm not caught up, but I dig your stuff. My wife and I are in the midst of a deep spring cleaning, and now, I know a dozen or so such things I'm gonna get shed of. Thanks for the advice, and of course, bless you and yours.

I always thought the knife steel was to true the edge and not sharpen it.

Pretty funny that all of the tools that are "so bad" are the same ones that I have been using for years and don't work too bad for their intended purpose. Not to mention that all of the tools that he demonstrated actually worked just fine in his demonstration.

This is the strongest dad humor I have ever witnessed. The best satire on youtube

I've used those lights for years. I have lots of them, and they work like a frekken champ. Don't know why he can't get them to work. I get the impression from a lot of these videos that, either the problems with tools are exaggerated, or W-star really isn't very good at estimating the limitations of a tool, and not exceeding those limitations, or working around them.

The knife steel is actually not that bad you just have to learn to use it properly

You know, after some of the tools worked great he could have just not posted the video, but instead he put it out there for all to see. I'm not going to fault him for that. Props for admitting when you are wrong about something; very admirable quality.

Wranglerstar: "Can't imagine why someone would use hand powered loppers to prune their bushes when there's a much better tool out there" also Wranglerstar: loves to use hand axe and hand saw to cut down huge trees

Man:These tools suck Tools: hold my beer

A honing steel isn't for sharpening. It's for knocking the small burrs out of the knife

Wrong title. Should be "The top 5 easiest to use tools that I had absolutely no clue how to use and/or maintain"

So we have; -a screwdriver you're using wrong -a perfectly functional stud finder -a lamp that no one has used since 1995 -a knife steel that you are also using wrong -a universal socket which, in your testing, also worked fine

Bless you my friend I’ve tried finder after finder (and I live in Florida so it’s hard mode anyway because all the hurricane stuff gives false positives) but I’ve never been able to get them to work consistent. Always thought it was just me.

should be named "5 AMAZING Tools I don't know how to use"

I have never had a stud finder not work to satisfaction. I've never used a cheap one, but they always work for me.

You need to be at least 10% smarter than the tool that you are using. This guy isn't there.

Electronic stud finders don't work? Really? That's news to me. I install tvs on walls for a living. The stud finder I use works for wood and metal about 95% of the time. Hell, I'm starting to think that thing would find Moses and the burning bush if you asked it to.

I spent a month in Puerto Rico and loved the gator universal socket. I have very limit weight limit for tools and I used it with my impact driver to repair homes after the hurricane. Of course it not a replacement for a proper set of sockets, but man, it was invaluable and when I return I will be taking it back with me.

I've been using the same electronic stud finder for about the last 20 years. I do get a false reading maybe 1/5 of the time but I always check 3 times to be sure. I've never missed a stud after due diligence!

I am amazed at the basis of categorizing good and bad tools. Using the universal socket once and marking it as a bad tool even you show it works says a lot about the advice you give in your field of expertise

Thank you for making a vid of perfectly GOOD tools and how to use them wrongly. Yankee screwdrivers were the mainstay of joiners building houses before electric tools. Thousands were used and they work well (you arm hurts like hell the first few days lol). Steel are for honing a blade not sharpening it in the first place. Stones are for that. Stud finders work well (well they do here in the UK). it goes on.

I use a steel every day, If you can’t use a steel it’s your incompetence, I used a Yankee Driver for twenty years, still do if batteries are down,Garden shears are for fine garden work, Again if you can’t use them you don’t know how. Bear in mind that it’s a bad workman that blames his tools.

Absolutely love your videos. I am not convinced to remove my honing steel however. It is used often on the knives I don’t want super sharp, like paring knives, and does a great job HONING my nice knives. Lol’d at the universal socket part (I’ve never owned one). Love you.

I respect that he doesn’t edit his videos when they go wrong, he’s super genuine

Do not blame tools you do not know how to use.

Worst tool ever made? Flat head screws

Hey, i know someone who has a nice chef's steel and uses it as the first step in his sharpening process for his knives, and bladed work equipment ... that person is me, it's just a circular file and it can be useful for all sorts of sharpening to a ok edge, then switching to a stone.

Just purchased the universal socket online from a Chinese shop and wait for delivery. Then this video is recommended. I thought I will regret because of purchasing it. But the video has shown that it works, lol.

Watches 5 amazingly bad tools. Immediately goes out and buys two tools on the list haha.