Cold Steel Mini Recon with A Ultralock?

[Hypermole]

What do you all think?

I personally would love to see this knife with a S30V Stonewashed 3" Clip Blade.

 

[insta9ves]

usually i'd say never say never, but sorry to break it to you, that's prob not gonna happen.
Ultralock is just a more inefficient design compared to the triad lock, weaker(still need justification?), heavier(requires steel liners), more complex(springs and all) and iirc licensed from benchmade.

 

[GCG199]

Cold Steel has been pushing the Tri-Ad Lock for several years now.

All of the reasons posted above make sense for why they are using it now.

Hard to say if Cold Steel will ever introduce anymore liner-locks (what they call "leaf-spring" locks) either.

 

[Insipid Moniker]

XHP already performs a lot like S30V, so you're good there, and the old Recons had quite a nice stonewash finish under the coating, so you might be one stripped coating away from that, but I doubt you'll see the Ultralock make a comeback. I'm not at all opposed to it as it beats the Triad in ease of use, but I'd rather see the prototype one-hand Triad that they were originally planning to put on the Tiger Claw. For me, the three elements that make a good lock are strength, reliability and ease of use, the Triad is stupid strong and we know it's reliable as well, but it's never been very easy to use. If Cold Steel gets that down too, I'll happily call it the best lock available anywhere.

 

[Hypermole]

I have a mini recon clip point that is stripped. The stonewashed finish under the coating is beautiful ! If SOG can use a Arc-Lock and Spyderco a Ball Bearing lock I don't see why Cold Steel can't figure something out. They must have had to pay Andrew Demko who invented the tri-ad lock something.

The SOG Specialty Knives & Tools VS01-CP Visionary I is a very close knife that meets most of these standards. It just needs a plain, stonewashed clip blade.