Leaving your car parked on the street is an exercise in civic trust (or Civic trust, ha!). After you've locked up your ride and head off to work, you assume that your vehicle will be there when you get back and in the exact same condition it was when you left it. Out of sight out of mind, right? I mean...nobody would actually take an axe and slam it through the hood of a car, would they?
Well, April Fool's is a bad time to assume anything. And, seeing as some people are protective over their cars more than most other things makes it a perfect target to prank. By modifying an axe and using powerful magnets you can create a simple but effective prop that looks like someone has sunk an axe into your friends' car. The perfect revenge-prank!
This prank does not damage your victim's ride and will alarm the prankee and passer-by's alike.
Enough talk, let's prank!
Well, April Fool's is a bad time to assume anything. And, seeing as some people are protective over their cars more than most other things makes it a perfect target to prank. By modifying an axe and using powerful magnets you can create a simple but effective prop that looks like someone has sunk an axe into your friends' car. The perfect revenge-prank!
This prank does not damage your victim's ride and will alarm the prankee and passer-by's alike.
Enough talk, let's prank!
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or a recommendation to everyone make a fake spill prank and put it on a laptop
I wonder if you could anneal the axe head to reduce the hardness. I'm not sure the annealing temperature for steel but it's in the 600C-800C range I think.
Since you aren't using it to cut you wouldn't need to re-temper it.
In Step 5 it reads "All that's left is to place your neodynium magnets on the axe face and you're ready to prank!". So, the magnets were just placed on the axe face.
I would like to redo this prank one day with the magnets inset into the face, but need a much larger drill press and a very dense (and probably expensive) drill bit in order to get through the tool steel axe.
But on the subject of the magnets, I have to "axe" you :-) why not just magnetize the axe head instead of using separate magnets? It seems to me that it would be cheaper and less complex.
I have a small suggestion for you: if you crumple a beer can, cut a very jagged strip and glue it (silver side out) on top of the magnet you achieve the effect as if the metal of the car hood has been squeezed out by the axe's blade ;-)
Man I can think of a bunch of stuff to do with $27.99
Get a scrap piece of wood and go at it until it looks like an axe head, same for a handle, a little paint and voila you can carve slots for your magnets.
Heck, you could put the magnets on the inside of your jacket and make it a great last minute Halloween costume!