★ Gut Knife | Black Laminate (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This is a restrained knife skin: no bright colour, just dark worked metal and a natural-looking layered handle. The stonewashed finish already has a rough, used character, so the small marks of Minimal Wear blend into it. For most buyers this grade looks practically the same as a fresh copy in game.

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

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

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

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The blade is dark grey with a mottled stonewashed texture across the whole flat, a bevel line running down to the tip and the gut hook cut into the spine. A row of jimping sits on the spine near the handle.

Faint light marks may appear along the cutting edge near the tip. The rest of the blade, the gut hook and the handle look untouched. Thanks to the stonewashed texture these marks are hard to spot even on inspect. At normal distance it reads exactly like a fresh copy.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of ★ Gut Knife | Black Laminate is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% 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 18th of 23 skins Covert Gut 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 1.8× dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the stonewashed blade can hide small differences that only show near the edge and tip.
• Inspect the cutting edge, the gut hook and the tip, as these lose finish first.
• Look at the contrast of the handle layers on worn copies, because faded grain changes the overall look more than blade scratches do.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, as both are fixed to the item.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-fresh look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers who know the stonewashed texture hides the faint marks of this grade.
• Conclusion: the practical choice for a clean-looking knife.