★ Butterfly Knife | Scorched (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Butterfly Knife | Scorched is a balisong spray-painted in soft blotches of charcoal black and pale sand. The colours blend into each other without hard borders, so the knife reads as smoky rather than patterned. In Factory New the paint covers the blade and both handles without breaks, and the transitions between dark and light patches stay smooth.

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

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

Appearance in Factory New

The blade is covered in irregular spray blotches of charcoal black, mid grey and pale sand, with a lighter streak usually crossing the middle and darker patches near the spine and tip. Both handles carry the same palette, mostly dark with long tan streaks running along their length, and the round cut-outs break up the surface. The pivot pins, latch and the tang near the blade stay dark and blend into the handles. On worn copies the paint goes first from the blade edge, the tip and the spine, then from the outer edges of the handles and around the cut-outs, revealing bare steel.

Factory New copies sit in a very narrow band at the bottom of the float range, so the paint is intact everywhere. The blade edge, tip and spine show no bare metal. In game the knife reads as an even smoky mix of dark and light tones. Both handles and the cut-out edges look clean.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Butterfly Knife | Scorched is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops from Operation Breakout Weapon Case (on sale since Jun 23, 2014) as a rare special item.

What it costs in each quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 2× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 2.2× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 2.3× cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 15th of 23 skins Covert Butterfly Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 1.7× dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since lower values keep more paint on the blade edge and tip.
• Look at how the dark and light blotches fall on the blade, as the pattern placement changes how dark or pale a copy looks.
• On worn grades inspect the blade edge, spine and handle cut-outs, where bare steel appears first.
• Check for a name tag and decide whether you want it, since it stays with the item.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the paint intact on every part of the knife.
• Players who prefer a clean, smoky look with smooth colour transitions.
• A choice for those who want this finish in its fullest condition.