★ Bayonet | Bright Water (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Bayonet | Bright Water is a military bayonet with a blue hydrographic camo covering the blade and grip. The blotches mix pale sky blue, mid blue and deep navy, so the knife looks like cold water in shifting light. In Factory New the camo stays solid and saturated, and the contrast between light and dark patches is at its sharpest.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Factory New

The blade is covered in a hydrographic camo of irregular blotches in pale blue, sky blue, mid blue and dark navy, with a few grey-white patches that brighten the pattern. The camo runs across the whole flat of the blade up to the tip and around the hole near the spine. The crossguard is left as plain light steel and separates the blade from a blue handle with ribbed grip segments and a darker ring at the pommel. On worn copies the paint first leaves the cutting edge, the tip and the spine, then the raised ribs of the grip and the pommel, exposing silver metal underneath. Pattern placement differs between copies, so the balance of light and dark patches on the visible side of the blade can vary.

The camo is complete across the blade, handle and pommel, with no visible steel showing through the paint. Colour transitions between the blue tones stay crisp. In game the knife reads as a bright, even blue at any distance. Only the bare crossguard shows metal, as it does on every copy.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Bayonet | Bright Water is 0–0.5; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (14% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Gamma Case
• Gamma 2 Case

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 22nd of 23 skins Covert Bayonet in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 22% dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since the cleanest copies keep the edge and tip free of silver marks.
• Inspect the visible side of the blade, because the camo placement differs and some copies show more light or more dark patches.
• Look at the cutting edge, tip and grip ribs first, as these are where steel shows through earliest.
• Note whether a name tag is applied and whether it suits you, since it stays with the knife.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the camo complete and the colours at their most saturated.
• Players who like a clean, bright blue knife in hand.
• The pick for those who want the finish exactly as designed.