★ Butterfly Knife | Urban Masked (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Butterfly Knife | Urban Masked is a balisong finished in a muted urban camouflage of light grey, slate grey and pale blue-grey streaks. The pattern was sprayed through a tangle of masking tape, so the colours meet in soft, irregular bands across the blade and both handles. In Factory New the bands stay crisp and even, and the cool grey tones look uniform from tip to latch.

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 wide, soft-edged bands of light grey, slate grey and pale blue-grey that run diagonally from the spine toward the edge, with the clip point taking the same streaked pattern. Both curved handles repeat the camouflage, with the bands flowing across the rows of cut-out holes so the pattern looks continuous when the knife is closed. The pivot pins, tang and latch stay in a darker gunmetal tone that frames the lighter paint. On worn copies the paint goes first from the cutting edge and tip, then from the handle rims, the areas around the holes and the back ends of the handles, exposing bare steel underneath.

The paint is intact on the blade, the edge and both handles, with every grey band clear and evenly toned. This finish cannot reach the very lowest floats, so all Factory New copies sit fairly close together near the top of the grade. In game the knife looks clean in both the hand and the inspect animation. The dark pivot and latch contrast neatly with the lighter camouflage.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Butterfly Knife | Urban Masked 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

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 2.1× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 2.6× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.5× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 2.5× cheaper

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

By price this skin is 13th of 23 skins Covert Butterfly 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 18% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the chosen grade, since low Field-Tested and high Field-Tested copies differ visibly on the edge and handles.
• Look at the cutting edge, tip and handle rims in inspect, as these are the first places where paint gives way to bare steel.
• Compare how the grey bands fall on the blade, because the stencil placement varies between copies and some show more contrast on the visible side.
• Decide whether you need a StatTrak™ version, which exists for this knife and is listed separately.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the camouflage with every band intact.
• Players who inspect their knife often and want no visible marks.
• Conclusion: the grade for buyers who value a fully clean finish.