Help with a Cold Steel?

[JD Mandrell]

MANY years ago, my brother gave me this for XMASS, at the time it was one of my favorite knives, but after about 1 year the liner lock stopped engaging, and Cold Steel had stopped making it, so they wouldn't service it. Back then I attempted to take it apart and fix it, but a small part fell out and I couldn't get it back in. The knife has set in a drawer TAUNTING me for years, and every few I took it out and made an attempt to fix it. Well FINALLY this morning, the knife gods smiled on me and I was tinkering with it and got it back together and it's working fine! I am thrilled to have this knife going again, as it was a present and I really liked it.

It's been so long, that I can't remember much about the history, so I am hoping someone on here can fill in some gaps.

It was a 3 inch drop point blade, and it's called a Cold Steel UltraLock, (not the current one) and it has an odd one-handed opening system of ridges along the top and end of the blade. It has a rather aggressive liner lock and FRN handles.

I would appreciate any info on when Cold Steel made them and when they were discontinued.


I am kinda excited, it is a great fealing to see a good knife that I had assumed was out of commission for life, back in the game!

 

[Esav Benyamin]

Nice knife. I carried the tanto on the job for a few years. Recently I picked up the clip point. REALLY nice knife. I wish I had that one way back when. Strangely enough, the spear point/drop point, like yours, is the one I wanted all along.

The tanto is hollow ground and very sharp. The clip point is flat ground.

I used to carry it IWB, right front. I would slip my thumb alongside that thick handle and pull it out by friction, and thumb open the blade by those tang ridges. People had no idea where it came from when I did this.

 

[JD Mandrell]

Nice knife. I carried the tanto on the job for a few years. Recently I picked up the clip point. REALLY nice knife. I wish I had that one way back when. Strangely enough, the spear point/drop point, like yours, is the one I wanted all along.

The tanto is hollow ground and very sharp. The clip point is flat ground.

I used to carry it IWB, right front. I would slip my thumb alongside that thick handle and pull it out by friction, and thumb open the blade by those tang ridges. People had no idea where it came from when I did this.

Thanks, I didn't even know they made it in anything but drop point. I've never seen another one. I do remember that my brother told me he bought it in a clearance/discontinued sale and I have narrowed that down to around to XMASS 1992-93 as when he gave it to me. As for the edge, I carried and used it for about a year, then it layed in a drawer 10+ years until today, and it still has the original factory edge and will still "pop" hairs off my arm. I did notice a little "rust" starting in the nail nick on the blade that I will remove.

I carried it today for kicks, I have what are probably better knives now, but I always did like this one. I even lost it once in a parking lot and made my family go back almost 5 miles to look for it and found it laying next to where we had parked.