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I did it once just to try it. Like most things we do, making it effective would take some practice. You have to do it so the blade hits the water covered anvil a micro-second ahead of the hammer. The water, of course, causes the blade to cool a good bit faster than it otherwise would have AND it makes for a wet anvil although I don't know if that means more maintenance on the anvil or not. I was doing damascus billets when I tried it. My normal cleaning process was a twisted wire cup brush on a small angle grinder. Water might have been faster if you could master the technique but the wire brush was more thorough and less messy IMO ....
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