★ Classic Knife | Fade (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Classic Knife | Fade is a chrome-based blade airbrushed in transparent paints that blend from blue and violet at the tip through pink to amber near the guard. In Factory New the gradient is unbroken from tip to heel, and the chrome under the paint keeps the colours bright and glossy. This grade suits a buyer who wants the finish exactly as it was designed.

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

Anodized Airbrushed: a coloured coating with an airbrushed design on top; the coating holds while the design fades with wear.

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear.

Appearance in Factory New

The blade carries the whole gradient: blue and violet at the tip, a band of magenta and pink across the middle, and orange to yellow toward the base. Near the ricasso and the spine serrations the paint thins out and the chrome base shows through as a silvery sheen. The guard is dark metal, and the grip is a dark green-black carbon texture with a small silver insert below the guard. How much of each colour sits on the blade depends on the pattern, so copies differ in the balance of blue, pink and amber. On worn copies the tip and the cutting edge lose paint first and turn bare silver, followed by the spine.

The paint is intact across the whole blade, including the tip and the edge. The gradient transitions are smooth, and the chrome gives the colours an even shine. In game the knife shows a clean, saturated sweep of colour from every angle of the inspect animation. Copies near the top of the grade may carry barely noticeable marks on the tip only under close inspection.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Classic Knife | Fade is 0–0.08; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (88% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops from CS20 Case as a rare special item.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 7th of 12 skins Covert Classic 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 13% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the pattern, since the share of blue, pink and amber on the blade changes from copy to copy.
• Check the float position within the grade, as lower values keep the tip cleaner.
• Inspect the tip and the cutting edge for silver specks where paint has worn through.
• Note whether the copy has a name tag or a StatTrak™ counter, since both versions exist.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the gradient with no marks on the tip.
• Players who inspect their knife often and want the cleanest look in close views.
• Factory New is the grade for those who value an untouched finish above everything else.