★ Karambit | Freehand (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Karambit | Freehand pairs the curved claw blade with a deep purple base covered in white and silver marker doodles. In Factory New the drawings keep crisp outlines and the purple stays even from the spine to the edge. This is the copy for a buyer who wants the artwork exactly as designed.

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

Anodized Multicolored: several colours in the metal coating; it wears little, the colours only dull with use.

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

Appearance in Factory New

The blade is painted in deep purple and covered edge to edge with white and silver marker drawings: glyphs, hand prints, faces and small symbols. A narrow polished steel strip runs along the cutting edge and catches the light against the dark paint. The grip is black textured polymer with finger grooves and is not part of the paint, while the finger ring repeats the purple doodle pattern. On worn copies the paint goes first at the tip, the cutting edge and the spine, then on the outer rim of the ring; the grip keeps its look.

The purple base is uniform and every marker line is sharp. The tip, spine and ring show no exposed steel beyond the designed polished edge. In game the drawings are readable on inspect and the blade looks clean from any angle.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Karambit | Freehand is 0–0.48; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (15% 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:

• Gamma Case
• Gamma 2 Case

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 22nd of 23 skins Covert Karambit 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 26% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since the edge and tip change most between low and high values.
• Look at which drawings fall on the visible side of the blade, as placement differs between copies.
• Inspect the tip, spine and the rim of the finger ring for exposed steel.
• Check whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the marker artwork fully intact.
• Players who inspect their knife often and notice small details.
• The choice for the cleanest version of the pattern.