★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet is a solid-colour finish on the sawback Bowie Knife: a dark, almost black blade and grip set against purple on the guard, pommel and grip screws. In Factory New the paint is even across every part, so the purple accents look crisp and the dark surfaces stay uniform. This grade suits a buyer who wants the two-tone scheme exactly as designed.

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

Solid Color: a single colour without a pattern; wear dulls it evenly and rubs it off along the edges.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The blade is painted a dark charcoal-black from the clip point to the guard, with a lighter ground bevel along the cutting edge and the sawback teeth on the spine. The guard is solid purple, as is the cap on the pommel. The grip is the same dark tone as the blade, broken only by purple screw heads along the handle. On worn copies the paint first leaves the cutting edge, the tip and the spine teeth, then the flat of the blade, the tips of the guard and the pommel edges.

The coating is complete on the blade, guard, grip and pommel. The edge bevel and the sawback teeth keep their even dark tone without bare metal. In game the knife reads as a clean black shape with sharp purple accents. Clean copies of this grade fall within a narrow slice at the bottom of the range, so they are relatively scarce.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Bowie Knife | Ultraviolet is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% 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:

• Spectrum Case
• Spectrum 2 Case

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 6th of 23 skins Covert Bowie Knife 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 8.5× dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Look at the float within the wear grade, since a low value keeps the edge and spine teeth noticeably cleaner.
• Inspect the cutting edge, tip and sawback teeth first, as these lose paint before anything else.
• Check the purple guard and pommel cap for chips, because they carry the skin's accent colour.
• Note whether the knife is StatTrak™ and whether it has a name tag, as both change how the item reads.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the black-and-purple scheme with no paint loss.
• Players who value a clean blade in inspect animations.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who want the finish exactly as designed.