★ Karambit | Boreal Forest (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Karambit | Boreal Forest puts a forest camouflage hydrographic on the curved karambit blade, with olive, khaki, dark green and brown blotches running from the spine to the edge. In Factory New the print is complete and the polished steel edge stays a thin bright line along the curve. The green grip with its textured inserts keeps the whole knife in a calm woodland palette.

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

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

Appearance in Factory New

The blade carries a forest camouflage hydrographic in olive, khaki, dark green and brown blotches that cover the flat of the curved blade and continue onto the finger ring. The sharpened edge is left as polished steel, which gives a thin bright outline along the curve. The grip is green with tan textured inserts and deep finger grooves, so it frames the camo in the same colour family. On worn copies the print first gives way along the cutting edge and the tip, then on the spine and the outer rim of the finger ring, exposing bare steel. The grip keeps its colour across all wears, so wear shows mainly on the metal parts.

The camo print is complete on the blade and the finger ring, with crisp borders between the blotches. The polished edge is even and unbroken along the whole curve. In game the knife looks fully clean from any angle in the inspect view. The Factory New range for this skin is narrow, so copies in this grade are close to each other in look.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The float of ★ Karambit | Boreal Forest ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0.06–0.07 — 1% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• CS:GO Weapon Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 2 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 3 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Operation Bravo Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Winter Offensive Weapon Case (on sale since Dec 18, 2013)
• eSports 2013 Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014)

And 5 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

Price by quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 3.8× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 4.5× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 4.4× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 4.4× cheaper

Based on the cheapest SkinOut.gg listing of each quality, otherwise on the market reference.

Among 23 skins of the Karambit in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 6th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 1.8× dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check where the float sits within its wear range, since the edge and tip of the blade show the difference first.
• Inspect the cutting edge, the tip and the spine in the inspect view, as these lose the camo before the rest of the blade.
• Look at the rim of the finger ring on worn copies, because it scuffs along with the blade.
• Decide whether the StatTrak™ version or a name tag matters to you before comparing offers.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the camo print complete and the steel edge untouched.
• Players who inspect their knife often and want every blotch crisp.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who want the cleanest possible copy.