★ M9 Bayonet | Slaughter (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This bayonet carries the Slaughter finish: chrome and aluminium stripes under a translucent red coat, framed by a pinkish guard and a dark ridged grip. At Minimal Wear the red still reads as clean and glossy in hand, and any marks are small enough to stay out of view in normal play. It gives almost the same look as the cleanest grade with a bit more room in the budget.

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.

How the skin looks in Minimal Wear

The whole blade is covered with a tomato-red candy coat laid over a zebra-like stripe pattern, where brighter pinkish bands alternate with darker crimson ones. The stripes run diagonally along the blade, from the tip past the finger hole down to the ricasso, and their exact layout differs from copy to copy.

Tiny breaks in the coat can appear at the very tip and on a few spine teeth, usually visible only up close in the inspect view. The main surface of the blade, the stripes and the gloss look the same as on a clean copy. At normal viewing distance in the first-person model the difference from Factory New is hard to notice. The guard and the grip stay clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The float of ★ M9 Bayonet | Slaughter ranges from 0.01 to 0.26; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 32% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

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

Compared with the Minimal Wear quality, the others go like this:

• Factory New — 18% dearer
• Field-Tested — 3% cheaper

The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

Among 23 skins of the M9 Bayonet in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 7th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 2% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, because low-float copies show noticeably less bare steel at the tip and spine.
• Look at the stripe layout in the inspect view, since some buyers value copies with clear, recognisable shapes on the visible side of the blade.
• Inspect the spine teeth and the cutting edge closely, as these parts lose the coat first.
• Check for a name tag and the StatTrak™ counter if either matters to you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers hunting for a good stripe layout, where the pattern matters more than the last bit of float.
• A balanced option between appearance and cost.