How to Properly Treat Your Cheap or Expensive Pocket Knife. 

He really tells it like it is we need more honest knife channels like this not that fantasy survival bullshit

I actually really enjoy your content. No really. I do. Truly don't change anything.

Watching your work just comes natural to me. Fine knife artistry is rare these days and I take it very seriously... without trying at all!

You're still holding strong as one of my favorite knife review channels! Thanks for the laughs, bro, and keep up the great work!

Great advice for noobs. Who wants to be a master from the get-go. Your solid advice keeps us from making stupid and expensive mistakes, not the fun and educational ones.

Your satire is what separates your videos from the others. Especially with knife videos!

AKB does to knives what the porn industry does to women. While we may derive a certain guilty satisfaction, observing from a safe distance - we would never, ever treat our own knives "that way"....

Bro dont mind the trolls, the haters and the idiots who dont understand what a hard use test is about. Keep batoning with folders those are the best part of your videos.

This is my favorite knife channel because it's satirical. And it helps me justify my knife and flashlight buying habit.

I'm going to use a stick of butter to baton a butter knife through another stick of butter, just to get the silverware/flatware/utensil mafia and their customer service/warranty representatives riled up. :P

Dude I really appreciate your videos there informative and funny , I don't see how people miss that. Keep up the great work dude

Wow, I'm impressed with how REAL this video was. You know, none of that "I pry open manholes and baton whole trees with mah knaaf urry day bruh and then shave the next morning" kinda bs. That's truly advanced knifery, definitely gonna subscribe and watch your channel while high. Hi!

I think your response to those comments were absolutely appropriate time you did a really good job handling the jerk off and informing the new viewer

The fact that a few people don’t understand satire is sad. I love your videos...thanks for sharing!

The way you show and tell is the most honest and fun way, on the entire RU-vid!

Thanks for the content mate, I appreciate your sense of humour. I’ve enjoyed watching your videos and wish you continued success. You live in some beautiful country, the landscape is amazing!

when it comes to freehanding sharpening with an oil or wetstone the best thing, if you want to, is to start on a big knife, they're much easier to control and you can see mistakes much easier, great tips! love ur vids!

Haha, getting suggested older videos I haven't seen yet! Love it!

The first time I saw one of your videos I was shocked. After thinking a bit, I realized your reviews were brilliant satire. I have loved them ever since. Thank you so much.

I love watching you baton. It makes me smile and laugh uncontrollably.

Best real knife video ever

Your reviews are awesome! I'm always looking forward to see what's next!

Did you really respond to the mouth breathers? Damn. There are two types of people, those who get. your videos, and those who shouldn't. Yours are the best, and those in the second group can suck it.

If you're willing to take advice from a hunter, gun barrel maintenance oil is great for rust protection on high carbon steel blades. It may be expansive, but if correctly applied it sticks a lot better (and longer) on the steel, doesn't stain it and doesn't grease your hands when you're touching the blade.

Holy shit! Your video is more informational than a dozen by the Nick dude who seems to never leave the indoors.

Fuck em your satirical nature is one of the reasons I watch your channel

telling everyone no to troll is the greatest troll food every.. we cant resist it.

I just found your channel and I simply love your deadpan humor. Keep on your great work! :D

Soft screws are a smart design feature; they prevent the female threads in the frame/liner from being stripped out.

I like your St. John Paul II statue!

"... Or if you don't know what you're doing... Don't start." It's a gift how deep in lube jokes and b-roll batoning that you are able to bury sage wisdom like this.... Many many people (like me) could have used that advice a lot sooner. Thanks AKB.

That Major Willard impersonation was pretty good.

Good points and advice.

Always a treat when you make a vid dude.

You know, the Chuck D reference actually made me respect you a little more...subscribed!

That steak looked delicious.

Love your vids...always unique and enjoyable. I smile often if not continually while watching them. Don't change anything...especially for just a couple of 1%'ers who won't like anything you do anyway.

Good info, good humor. (I can go for one now).

Great video thanks for the upload and keep the great videos coming.

I appreciate your videos. You act like a nut but you're probably a responsible person and a good friend.

If you flip a suckbenza open it voids the warrantee !

Great video Mark.

You know those 4am knife sale bonanza shows? The guy on there had a great line that has always stuck with me "It is stainless steel, not stain-proof." Makes sense to me!

Fantastic video! Thanks for the education.. I’m new in the knife world!!

You should make a video on how to treat your cheap and expensive knifes

...i just found your channel maybe a day or two ago and i am binge watching all your videos. your cadence and diction...you're like the Ira Glass of knife reviews. i mean that...as...a...compliment? seriously, i do. i enjoy your videos. keep up being you and doing what you do.

Dear sir, I watched 7 or 8 of your videos, and they were so damn funny and informative I had to watch 7 or 8 more. Keep doing your thing man! 👍🏼

Love your videos it's a nice take the typical knife review channel. For the rusting bit polishing them with mineral oil will go a long way. For my blades that are more susceptible to rusting I coat/polish them once a week the rest receive that once a month. Mineral oil is the stuff that chemistry teachers use to keep more reactive metals like sodium from sparking/exploding by keeping it away from both both water and air. By that logic it also prevents rusting.

Nicely done as always

Keep up the good work!

Proper humor, proper advice, and properly grilled steak. I prefer my steak to twitch a little while slicing it with my PM2. I also prefer a bubbly Belgium Trappist ale to go along with some grilled asparagus. That is all

There will always be some morons not getting any joke. No need to worry about them, they will find their arena elsewhere. Your videos are made with such great care and attention to details, that, jokes or not, most of us will always appreciate your efforts a lot! At least I love to watch them, often more than once, and even with my poor English I still get a fit of giggles. Aside of that, your reviews helped me to buy the flashlights and knives that I use and enjoy every single day .Thanks and Cheers from overseas.

I mean honestly this is still a good video. well rounded knife bro

A Medicine man saw in a vision that you were placed on this earth to make this video to educate the masses. Sweat lodge prophecy complete.

You talk just like me, it feels so normal watching your channel, keep it up:)

Love the videos!

"If you don't have anything nice to say, say nothing at all " Also words from my childhood, so I have to say I love your videos. Right up there with Joerg Sprave and Demo Ranch.

Third vid, third beer.. Smiling from ear to ear 😁

Pretty sure id hire you as my life coach.

I use a light coating of mineral oil on the blades of my knives. This helps in the rust prevention and a little drop in the pivot helps the smoothness of the blade deployment.

Everything I know about knives is from watching this channel. Thanks Advanced Knife Bro!

I like your knife videos. keep it up!

Just started following your channel and uhh better than most very Mitch hedberg like

I love your channel for what it is. It gives me thoughts of what I want to buy and couldn't afford without becoming your competition and who wants that.... Trust me, no one including me. "There is no price point where a knife will cease to fail." Common sense, along with that all knives may rust. But something every RU-vid knife channel should say at some point, and some non-comedy channels should start every video with. Trying to make this a promotion comment with some meaning and not total nonsense because I can't afford to Patreon let alone a Vakra. So I'll just say thanks again besides commenting, liking (even older), and subscribing. Is Brofix a word? Cause I need it every now and again and again.

I love my Smiths Pocket Pal!

I usually treat my knives really good to get what I want out of them. A nice fast food dinner, glass or two of a fine Mad Dog 20/20, and maybe a little sweet talk right before a firm massage. My knives love me.

Good job God bless you Bro

U are a fucking legend. Instead of battling a hole trolls in comments you just took them all on in a video. And nicely told them all fuck off. I tip my hat sir... lmao

Great vid even better sense of humor

Thanks Bro. Strangely enough. I had forgotten, just how much I liked that Ant clip. : - ) 01:53 I'll only add one thing today. A pre-heated 100 degree convection oven. Works very well, for drying knives.

when you want to baton a log with a folding knife without damaging it as much you should unlock the knife- literally have the blade and the handle at 90° angle so you dont damage the locking mechanism

More batoning and cardboard cutting please.

15 thumbs down 👎 meant they cut their thumbs, whilst watching your video & still couldn't get their knives sharp enough. Blunt knives slip & cut fingers. ✌

GREAT VIDEO BRO

When I used to buy Benchmade knives (I have 7) I learned that it was essential to put blue loctite on the pivot screw. I don’t know if they still have the problem in current production knives, but about a decade ago every one of those 7 knives pivot screws loosened and/or fell out. I hope they corrected that problem.

Had to watch this again to realize how funny it is…😂

Well I tried to watch your videos 7-100 times cuz they’re fuckin awesome!! Keep up the great work AKB. I haven’t seen spine whacks on this channel 🤔... maybe next time lol

Love your videos remind me of myself full of sarcasm. It’s your knife do what you want with it. Atleast it’s not some lame video of someone’s dry ass hands talking about the shade of g10 being wrong then what was advertised. Keep it up brother !

Good tips. Unforuantely most people don't have common sense (...what NOT to do with a pocket knife). Many ppoeple have to learn the hard way. :)

Cool. I've only used a 6'' sharpening steel from Solingen for folders. Two strokes back to sharp easy to carry in my edc. I use a 12'' steel for a 25 year old Chinese kitchen butcher knife never used a stone and that's the only large kitchen knife I use. Still sharp hardly worn, original edge still visible

I stopped watching birds vid to watch yours so it better be good

Really enjoy your videos they are very funny and somewhat infomative...big ups to the camera person if there even is a camera person,

I baton my benchmade folders sometimes... not all crazy with 10lb logs or anything... just the occasional bop with a 28oz hammer.

5:10 I have a elk ridge knife with the same pins and I was trying to figure out how to open it quickly untill I saw that and I tried it I was shocked that I haven’t even tried it. Thanks :)

Thank u for this video man. No matter if I spend 10 or 1000 dollars on a knife it then becomes my knife there for giving me the right to treat it how ever the hell I want. No matter if I'm building a shelter for survival or shaving my girls ahh? Legs yea legs either way my blade my rules. That being said I take great care of my tools and will continue to do so my way so take that trolls! Loved the vid man

3:35 ultimate answer:D

Truly agree with u about taking care of knives. I rarely have the real chance of using them anyway especially in my country with the strict law. One of the cold steel folders I love the most somehow, sooooo regret of showing off to my friend(idiotic act myself)... We both take turns to hit that hold out(cts xhp) on a electrical box made of cast iron... It did take the hit quite well and some hole on the iron but break after.. Soooo sad that I cannot get another one back even cold steel refunded credit to me(not what I wanted). So I am your side..

I've found that using a spray oil called Ballistol works really well for preventing rust on high carbon knives. Also prefer it to 3 in 1 for lubing folders because it doesn't smell like shit for days after lubing it. And if you complain about how your knife smells like shit after lubing it, people might get the wrong idea.

Hi Mark, You've been in this RU-vid game for a long time, so what I am going to say is probably not anything you do not already know. I just wanted to take the time to applaud your videos and say that I hope you keep doing what you are doing. The story of how I became your subscriber went something like this: I chanced upon your channel because I was interested in a review of the Case Sodbuster and a Higonokami because I recently developed an interest in traditional knives. Your channel is one of the few that gives a review of these knives. Then, I stumbled upon your reviews of your ESEE Knives, of which I am a fan. I have to admit that I mostly fast-forwarded through your videos, and I did not understand the point or meaning of your reviews at first. I thought to myself, "These reviews aren't really helpful. This guy just does dumb shit with his knives." But, as I kept watching videos and actually paying attention to them, I started to see the appeal: you are hilarious! The proper term to describe your comedy is "parody." Comic poets use imitation to ridicule the all-too-serious - even deadly serious - subject matter of tragedy. All of this humor requires intelligence, self-awareness, and recognition of the social and cultural tendencies around these industries not only on your part, but on the part of your audience to understand the full depth of your jokes. Clearly, not everyone is capable of that level of understanding. I found that you are not only poking fun of yourself, but your audience, and I have felt more than a few jokes hit very close to home. It took me a while to realize the amount of intention that went into your scripts and videography. (I mean, the lube jokes in front of the altarpiece! C'mon, that's funny!) At the end of the day, anyone can dismiss you for just "joking" or "playing," but your videos are more honest and truthful than those of most other channels, partly because of your caustic humor. And, based on the laugh-out-loud worthy quips I have heard you say, I highly doubt you are giving biased reviews or are in the pocket of any knife manufacturer. Not only are you self-deprecating, but by imitating and exaggerating other knife reviewers, your comedy gets to the heart of those people who take themselves too seriously about their knives; who fantasize about survival; who convince themselves of many absurd situations in which they may use their EDC; who follow the latest trends of the knife, EDC, and gear industry; who are obsessed with and who reinforce the overwhelming industry of tactically designed knives that will never be used "tactically;" and who are gullible enough to buy knives composed of super-materials and do not understand that this is just another marketing ploy. (I am sure everyone one of us has been prone to doing one of those things, too.) Sometimes, you enter the territory of being blasphemous by ridiculing some of the most successful RU-vid content creators, like Nutnfancy, Wranglerstar, Dave Canterbury, as well as the big name brands. In addition, you are unafraid to irreverently question the use of modern super-material/super-steel knives, their durability, and their cost because, as the saying goes, "a chain is only as strong as its weakest link," and these super-material knives are overhyped and unproven: they are the textbook example of diminishing returns of performance. Moreover, you blatantly draw attention to cost-cutting problem of how most companies - which are already competing in an oversaturated market - feel the pressure of maintaining a competitive advantage by cutting costs somewhere, whether by using soft screws, using cheap handle materials, including low quality sheaths, exporting labor costs, loosening quality control/fit-and-finish standards, etc.. You also do not shy away from ridiculing internet warriors, backyard bushcrafters, tacticool LARPers, bro-dudes, and flat-bottom, desk-pushing weekend warrior campers. The knife and gear industry is full of so many diverse companies, designs, and people, and it is prone to sudden and massive cultural shifts in trends. This industry has a tough crowd, so you will never please everyone. Your content clearly flies over the heads of those people who say that you are not using your knives or gear "correctly," or who say that you do not know what you are doing. But, these people do not even understand the paradox and predicament of being a knife or gear reviewer: on the one hand, your audience will want a review of the true limitations of the knives and gear which they hope to buy, but if you use your knives "correctly," then we would never know the limitations and faults of the knives and gear that you test. On the other hand, if you use your knives and gear "incorrectly," then you get criticized for how you use them by another group of people who will undoubtedly say, [idiot person accent] "Well, of course, you broke your knife! That's not how you're supposed to use it!" Regarding the use of your knives, I can appreciate that you torture and destroy your knives by using them imprudently. You baton the ugliest wood full of knots; you chop wood in a hastily manner; you stab and pry logs with the tips of your knives; you baton folding knives; you utterly abuse your knives by using them in such an absurd and humorous manner. Anyone worth one's salt has learned not to abuse their tools so as to avoid injury to oneself and damage to one's tools. However, your experience and knowledge can be heard through your script - even if it is not seen in your actions in the video - by those who care to listen closely. (My favorite quote from you is: "There is no price point where knives cease to fail.") And, I give you props that you were able to destroy your Junglas II. You definitely got the attention of the guys at ESEE Knives for that. In short, I just want to say that your videos are not only a departure, but a great relief from the current trends of the knife, EDC, and gear industry, as well as the RU-vid channels that only amplify and reinforce those trends. I know that by commenting on your videos, I am opening myself up to ridicule or criticism, but I just wanted to say that this is the video that convinced me to subscribe to your channel, I wish I had found it sooner, and I hope you continue to make more videos like this one.

as always, a fun poignant vid. cheers

I came for the reviews. I stay for the comedy

I just remembered something an uncle told me. He was telling the story of how he broke the tip of one of his premium steel knives just popping a staple out of a stack of papers lol. Super high HRC is cool and all that but damn if a staple can take it out that easily what's the point. Also screw an expensive sharpener. I use a $6 diamond coated stone that starts at rough 750 grit but smooths out to perfection over time. I used to think sharpening was sort of a process only because I didn't realize I was oversharpening for a while. When an edge was too dull to cleanly slice regular paper I would give it 10 passes or so on each side til I realized to get any decent steel phone book paper push cutting sharp I just needed one pass maybe 2 on each side. Takes 5 seconds.

LOL. Great video.

Keep up the videos! :)

Dear Name Redacted: He started from the bottom; he still there. - Drake

Most of your subscriber base consists of folding knife “collectors” that think that cutting a tomato is knife abuse, so they keep their custom flippers in a drawer somewhere, taking them out to fidget with them while watching videos. I’m just relieved that someone on RU-vid is actually using their knives in their videos, unlike the generic knife reviewer that calls their folder a “hard-use” knife because they cut some cardboard with it. I don’t find your videos humorous, I find them educational.

0:17 baby: here he goes again

I ve been in the knife scene^^ since Im like 4 years old, been steeling my dads swiss army knife so often, eventually he bought me one^^ Since then I always tried to sharpen with like no money at all with rocks and ceramic cups and abrasive paste on cardboard, what im trying to say is that once you understand what you are doing, you can pretty much get any knife to mirror polish or some useable edge with household items. I carry a cold steel voyager since 6 years as edc, had a lot of other knives as well. cant stop buying new ones^^ btw excuse my shitty ass writing my german laptop hates english for some reason... Greetings from Bavaria love your humor keep up the good vids please!! Servus

Hi. Haven’t batoned with my Sebenza yet. But my oldest son just heard Chris Reeve and $425, so I’m gonna probably be facing some questions.

I like the person who told me. You do you.