★ Hand Wraps | Duct Tape (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Hand Wraps | Duct Tape covers both hands in strips of silver-grey duct tape laid over pale cloth wraps. The crinkled metallic sheen of the tape against the off-white fabric is what makes it recognisable. In Factory New the tape keeps its full silvery shine and the cloth stays at its lightest tone.

Item type: gloves. Extraordinary is the gloves rarity: in cases they are the rare special item, above any weapon skin.

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

How the skin looks in Factory New

The wrist cuffs and the back of each hand are wound in overlapping strips of silver-grey duct tape with a crinkled, slightly reflective surface. Over the knuckles and down the fingers the wraps switch to pale cream cloth bands, leaving the fingertips uncovered. Faint brownish smudges and creases are part of the base texture, giving the gloves a used, improvised look even on clean copies. On worn copies the knuckles, finger wraps and the edges of the tape strips lose their tone first, darkening with grime while the tape's shine fades.

Factory New is a narrow band at the clean end of this skin's float range. The tape keeps its full silver sheen and the cloth on the knuckles and fingers stays light cream. Only the smudges built into the base texture are present. In game the contrast between tape and fabric is at its clearest.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Hand Wraps | Duct Tape 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 as a rare special item from:

• Clutch Case
• Revolution Case

What it costs in each quality

Among 12 skins of the Hand Wraps in the Extraordinary grade and this quality, this skin ranks 10th by price, counting from the dearest.

What to look at before you buy

• Factory New covers only a small slice of the float range, so check that the float really sits in that grade.
• Look at the knuckles and finger wraps first, since they darken earliest.
• Compare inspect screenshots, as the brownish smudges in the base texture can be mistaken for wear.
• Within each grade a lower float keeps more of the tape's silver shine.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest tape and lightest cloth.
• Players who like the silver-and-cream contrast at its sharpest.
• The top choice for this skin if condition matters most.