 Hey guys, Shave Air 1000 here. Today we're gonna be checking out this Cobalt Bow Axol. It's kinda like two saws in one. This was bought at Lowe's. Let's check it out and see if it's any good. As like I said, sorry about the background noise. Put them in the garage at her mom and dad's house and they're mowing all around. So what I'm doing is I'm putting a pool filter in, which you'll see that video too. But I had to go buy hacksaw blades. And I was looking at hacksaw blades that were like seven bucks. So I thought, well, I'll just grab a whole saw. This was $14.99. I thought, well, it'll work, then I got to reading it. It's a bow saw slash hacksaw. So what you can do is you can use it to cut limbs like camping or you can use it to cut steel. It also comes with all the blades. It comes with one blade for your wood cutting. You know, for cutting your branches for a bow saw for pruning and whatnot, camping. And it also comes with two steel blades for $14.99. So, you know, I'm getting a lot more of a deal. Now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna take this apart. Right now, we're gonna go ahead and open this up. Like I said, this was bought at Lowe's. Here's the hacksaw blades right here. So what we're gonna do is we're gonna take these off. Just take this wing nut off of here. I'm gonna take these two blades off. We're gonna be using one of these. I'm not sure which one. There's a 24 and an 18. See the difference in the teeth? Come on, focus. Oh, I guess not. Anyway, there is a big difference in the teeth. This is the woods, the, I don't know if you can see that in there. I'm just gonna leave the cover on it. That's for cutting your wood. Okay, so let's set this up here. Now, we're gonna take this. We're gonna pull this out and lose the bolt, okay? But I thought this would be great because, damn it, for when we go camping or when we have our fires out back. You know, I thought it'd be a great idea for that. So, let's go ahead. Let's use the, I'm gonna go ahead and use the 18 tooth. Cause we're just cutting plastic PVC and make sure you got the two teeth pointing away from you like that way, unless you want a back cut. But in this case, we're not gonna be doing that. So, all right, we're gonna put our, it's hot in here. Put our little deal on there. And we're gonna put our other one right up through here. Then I'll also try to find a piece of wood to cut. And we'll see how that does, but I may wait until we get home to do that and I'll just cut a limb off a tree or something, you know, there's plenty of dead limbs out. Tighten that down and then you pull this handle and that tightens it up. Now, what we're gonna do is we're gonna cut a piece of this tube off of here for the pull pump. And then I'll go back to that. I'm making two videos in one, guys. So, then we'll go back to that. And then when we get home, we'll try the wood leg. But right now, let's go ahead and cut this off. Okay, I think I measured, I think I needed seven inches for the first cut and I'll just use this one to mark it with. Got a pin in there, but I think monkey's using it. So, as you can see, I do have a tape measure here thanks to monkey, albeit a little funky looking, but hey, it's better than nothing, right? So, let's get the saw and let's start cutting this. See if I can get a straight cut. It's a little crooked, but that's me, not the saw. So far, the work's pretty good on this. Okay, guys, we're back at the house, our house. And I got a log here, granted it's not, it is oak, but it's kind of, you know, it's kind of rotten, but let's check this out. We got this blade on it, all right? And of course, it's gotta be wet. Yeah, see how wet that is inside there? So, yeah, it's, oh, there it is. This is awesome, man. Piece of tiger wood here. It's not made for this kind of stuff, but I thought I'd give it a shot. So, like I said, it's not made for cutting two before's or wood like that, but it is made for cutting, they call it pruning. So, yeah, this is, I'm almost through that already. Wet wood, but you get the idea. I wanna show you that one. Now, let's go put another blade on it. We'll go into the vise and we'll see how it cuts some metal. Okay, guys, we're back in here, we're in the shop. I've got a bolt here, it's not a grade eight. I do have grade eight bolts, but none I wanna cut up just for, but it's galvanized coating, okay? So it is steel, but it's just galvanized coating on it. What I've done is I've put the 24 tooth in. What that is, that TPI, is that's how many teeth it has per inch. We used the 18 on the PVC earlier, if you saw that video. Well, actually, I wanna throw a clip in, nevermind. But what it is, is every inch, there's 24 teeth on this. This is the one we used earlier. This one has 18 teeth. Let me see if I can get it focused and I'll show you. There's 18 teeth every inch. There's 18 teeth, but anyway. So let's cut this and what I like about it too, is it's got a front and rear. Let me back y'all a little bit, I zoomed in on the bolt. See, you can left or right. There's one thing I wish they would change. I'm not gonna say I don't like about it because so far I do like it, but we'll get to that at the end when I give you my final thoughts. Let's see if I can get this to zoom in on the teeth. I just wanted to show you how, you know, how far apart they are and whatever. But anyway, this is the 24-2. So let's go ahead and cut this off. I don't care about this bolt, this bolt's junk. So when you're using a hacksaw, don't put pressure on it. Let the saw do the work for you and try to utilize your whole blade if you can. Now, I'm going as far as I can because the wing nuts, I should have turned them around. I could have got full stroke, but see the wing nuts are kind of hitting on the vise there. But you get the idea. I mean, I know we're doing a review on the saw, but remember the saw blade, if you gotta pick up a couple dollars extra for a good blade, get a good blade. Don't buy them $2 blades or $3 blades or you get $3 for $4. Now, these happen to come with it, these cobalt blades. These are pretty decent. I've used them before, so. But yeah, it's just a pretty smooth one-handed too. A lot of guys will use this to keep straight. And then once you get, you know, almost halfway through, you can let go and just, if I were to turn my bolts, my nuts around here, my wing nuts, I could get a longer stroke. That's not even good, okay, it's not ready yet. That was my fault. But, so as far as the blade goes, kind of a review on the blade, I like the blades. Very good. Do I like the saw, yes. Now, let's talk about, again, sorry for the fan in the background, but it was very, very hot again today. It did rain a little bit. The pull pump, well, the filter system seems to be working okay, by the way. If you saw that video. But, let me get you turned around here, and I'll give you my final thoughts on this $14 cobalt. Okay, guys. The cobalt, bow saw slash hacksaw. Okay. It's 12-inch blade. Do I like it? Yes, I do. The pros. The price. I know you keep saying 14. It was $14.99, I think, or something like that. 15 bucks, whatever. So, let's just call it $15, all right? Now, you're gonna have tax on that, but. Does it feel good? Very, very comfortable. Another pro. I like the two handle, the two grip deal. I like that. I like that it comes with three blades. You got your wood blade for cutting through limbs and whatnot. Now, mind you guys, I'm not sponsored by them. They didn't give me this. I bought it. I bought it outright. No one has sponsored me yet, or has even asked. So, here, we have the 24-tooth, 24 teeth, and an inch. That's the 24-tooth. We also have the 18-tooth, which was good for the PVC pipe. Yes, I know, it was a little crooked. I sanded that off, by the way, made it straight, flat. That's my fault. It's not the sauce fault. That was totally my fault. Can't cut like I used to, but that's another story, and most of you guys know why, but I can't, you know. My arm's like a lasagna noodle sometimes, so I struggle a lot. But anyway, so you get the three blades. You get the two metal and plastic blades, and you get your wood blade. You can buy all different kinds of blades for these. Okay? So, I like the feel of it. I like the fact that you get extra blades, and multi-purpose blades. So, you know, you're not just stuck with one blade, now I gotta go pay $10 for more blades. The price is awesome. It does have this handle here that you pull out, right? And it loosens that, okay? But, a con. One of the cons, we went through the pros. One of the cons is the wing nuts. They could have had some kind of hook or something in there to where, once you release this handle, that you can change a blade. They could have made it a quick release. So, if anybody that works for Cobalt or has got some clout with them, let's see what we can do about that, okay? There's ways you can do it. A lot of the hacks always have it on one end anyway, you know, that you just stick it in. Another thing. Like this, I do not like this. Now, it hasn't got me yet, but I'm sure it will, okay? I don't like the fact that that's like that. You can get your hand in there and pinch your hand. Pretty easy. So, those are the two that I'm coming up with. You guys might like that idea. And some of you may not. I'm not cutting it down, pun intended. I am just letting you know my dislikes about it. Not everything can be perfect for everybody, you know? Some of you guys might like it like this and say, leave it. And some of you guys might say, you know, like me, well, let's make it quick release. That would be nice, a quick release, yes. But, you know, I mean, the saw, it's got a little gravity to it. I mean, it's not heavy. It's not, you know, gonna hurt you after a while. It's a little bit heavier than a regular hacksaw, but not by much. Not much to where you're gonna notice it. I do like that they have this here. Now, this is not padded. This is just plastic, but I do like that. This is padded here, this part. This is plastic. This is padded. And this is padded. Well, I won't say it's not padded. Let me rephrase that. Because I know somebody's gonna say, it's not technically padded, it's rubber. Okay, which is true. That's 100% right. It's not padded, but it feels like it. It's nice, it's a rubber. I don't know if it's a rubber or a silicone. It didn't really say on the, but it did say comfortable handles, but I didn't spend that much time reading the thing. So, yeah, very comfortable, easy on hands. Usually you should be wearing gloves when you use something like this too. Longevity, we don't know. I'll have to let you know in an upcoming future video. We'll give it a couple months, I'll use it, and we'll see what it's like. Durability, durability. Let's talk about that for a second. Well, I have dropped this twice on concrete. Both times it hit this edge. Yes, twice on concrete, both times it hit this edge. I dropped it twice on dirt, both times it hit this edge, because, you know, that's the heavy end. I see nothing. I see no dance, no damage, it's not bent. Monkey dropped it on concrete, hit that edge. She was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. It's okay, because she got sandals on, I'm glad it didn't hit her foot, because that would probably hurt as I have steel toes on, she doesn't. So it's been dropped three times on concrete, twice on dirt, I've had it a few hours. So as far as durability, I'm good with that. Now, I wanna talk to you about something about durability and these reviews. And remember, this is my opinion. You're welcome to differ. But when you watch these reviews, these guys reviewing stuff like this, I'm not gonna go out and tear my shit up, okay, on purpose, just because they said you can run over it with a car. Because when you buy something to use, I mean, does it make for good video? Not my opinion, no. Because I know exactly what they're gonna do, they're gonna do what they say it'll do, and then they bitch them on and complain if something happens. Well, it's not really made for that, it's just trying to show you, look, it's durable because a normal person, you know, that's somewhat all there is not gonna do that. I'm not gonna tear my stuff up just to see what it takes to break it, okay? Because to me, that's not a fair review, all right? So when I do my reviews, that's why I try as best as I can to do what the instructions say to do or to do what it's meant to do or what I'm gonna be doing with it. You're not gonna pay $30 for a frying pan and go out and run over it with your car. Well, what if it's an accident? Well, why do you have your frying pan out in your fucking driveway, okay? Your knife. Are you really gonna buy that knife to use to cut up chicken and end up cutting a brick with it? No, probably not. I mean, if you're doing brick work, that means you probably got the tools to do it. Are you gonna go out and cut a limb off a tree with a steak knife? Probably not, because if you're cutting a limb off a tree, you're probably gonna have a saw because you know that's what you're gonna be doing. You see my point? So I try to use, I try to do my reviews in everyday situations that I'm gonna use them in or you or your brother or sister. That's the way I like to do my reviews. I reviewed this today. I'm not gonna sit and bang on it with a hammer. I'm not gonna run over it with a truck. Like I said, this is not as seen on TV, so I don't even know if they claim that it'll handle it. But as far as, I mean, I'm pretty sure I could run over this with a truck. But what if it bends, you know? Now I gotta go buy another one. I'm not gonna tear things up. I'm not gonna say, well, they claim it'll do this. Another thing people do is give stuff thumbs down and it gets a one. When you're watching a video going, well, you did it totally wrong. You didn't do it the way they said because a lot of them go, well, the instructors say do this, but I'm gonna do it my way. And then when it don't work out, they put the product down and go, it's junk when really it's not, they just didn't know how to use it or didn't wanna do it the right way or whatever. But like I said, so far durability, yeah, I'm happy with it because, you know, I mean, I've dropped the older style hacksaws, you know, with the, just with the black plastic handle or blue handle or whatever they come on. I've dropped them and they broke. I've dropped them, they bent. This has not bent and has not broke. And like I said, it's been dropped three times on concrete twice in the dirt. So all in all, what does the cobalt get? In my opinion, two thumbs up. So far, I give it a five out of five stars. Now I'm gonna take it back. I'm gonna give it a four and a half star because of the little things that I would like to see. You know what, no, I will give it a five out of five because this is just a matter of preference here. It has nothing to do with how the solve functions and how it works. So I will give it a five out of five for $15. It's great. I mean, you would expect to see it at 20. I wouldn't want to see it at 20 because I think $15 is the perfect price. Excuse me, for this saw and with what you get, I think it's perfect. And cobalt's a good tool. I've always liked cobalt. It's not my favorite, but there are a little pricier, but I've always had good luck with cobalt products, all right? So yeah, I will give it a five out of five stars. Two bear claws up. I like it. So if you're looking for a good saw, like I said, dependability. Next time I use it, it may fall apart. I don't know about that yet, but so far right now, I would say if you're looking for a good hacksaw, and you don't mind paying $15 for one. I know you can buy them at the dollar store for three or four bucks, whatever, a dollar general. You don't buy that junk if you're gonna use it a lot. And like I said, this is dual purpose. I can use it out in the backyard. When we have our fires, I can use it camping. It's versatile. Comes with two extra blades. You can get different, you know, teeth, you know, on your, you know, 20, that's, it comes, it just comes with an 18, 24. Now you can get different teeth. You can get better saw blades. Lennox is a pretty good saw blade. They are very pricey, but I have used them. I have bottom, and I've had good luck with them. So yeah, overall, yeah, if you're looking for one, you don't mind paying $15 and some change for tax, pick you up a cobalt. I got this one at Lowe's, because Lowe's knows aces the place, right guys? There's what it looks like. And it wasn't on sale. That's actual price. So I can't, you know, I'm gonna sit here and say, you know, that it was on sale when it's not. That's the actual price. So with that being said, weekend's almost here tomorrow night. I'm not sure which video I'm gonna do, but I'm gonna try to do every Friday night if I can, a late night in the shop night, as you guys may or may not know. I've got two episodes up now. I'm calling it season one, episode one, season one, episode two. At first year, it'll be season two, episode one, right? Some of you guys like that. I've noticed a lot of other people are starting to do late night videos too. But I've got two things I'm not sure which ones I'm gonna do, but they're both really cool. Well, one of them's really cool and one's kind of a follow-up on something. So I may do that. I just may do that one tomorrow during the day. I still got my niece's suburban to look at. I didn't get to it today. So I'll bring you along with me on some of that. We'll scan the codes on it and see what the codes are reading and stuff like that. But yeah, anyway, guys, thanks for watching. I appreciate it a lot. Thanks for all your support. Please feel free to hit the bell icon after you subscribe to get notified of more videos. I have different, I have a book for those of you that don't know, if you're a first-time viewer, I've got a bunch of playlists. I've got cooking playlists, how-to playlists, passing on TV, product reviews, paranormal, nature and outdoors, you know, for the gearheads. I got, you know, car videos and shop videos and, you know, just do-it-yourself stuff. Just, there's something for everybody and, you know, have a Shea Bear binge and just watch them. I've got, I think, right around 1,000 videos now. So, there should be plenty there to keep you guys occupied. So anyway, again, Shea Bear is a mental legend. 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