★ Nomad Knife | Rust Coat (Well-Worn)

Skin overview

★ Nomad Knife | Rust Coat is a broad lock-blade knife whose blade is covered in a pale steel finish with rust spots. On a Well-Worn copy the blade still shows plenty of cold blue-grey metal, and the rust stays as speckles and brown patches near the spine and the base. It reads as a used field tool rather than a fully corroded one.

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

Patina: an aged metal surface; wear is part of the design, so the gap between qualities is less visible.

Appearance in Well-Worn

The blade carries a pale blue-grey steel base covered in fine rust speckles, with denser brown corrosion near the spine, at the base of the blade and around the pivot. The bolster and the pommel end of the handle also show rust, while the grey metal frame, the light silver side plate with its row of holes and the black textured grip insert remain in their own colours. The finish is a patina, so it does not peel like paint. Instead, the share of rust grows as the copy gets more worn. The blade surface and the edges near the pivot are where the brown tone builds up first.

At this grade a large part of the blade still shows the light steel base, with rust in scattered speckles and a few denser brown areas near the spine and the pivot. The bolster and the pommel have some corrosion. The handle frame, side plate and black grip insert look tidy. In game the knife reads as a light silver blade with a warm brownish haze.

Well-Worn wear: float 0.4–0.45

The whole float range of ★ Nomad Knife | Rust Coat is 0.4–1; Well-Worn takes the 0.4–0.45 segment (8% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

It drops from Fever Case as a rare special item.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Well-Worn as the baseline, Battle-Scarred — 28% cheaper. The comparison uses our cheapest listing of each quality; where there is none, the market reference.

By price this skin is 6th of 13 skins Covert Nomad Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter. Right now it is 18% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at where the float sits within the grade, because it decides how much light steel is left on the blade.
• Compare inspect screenshots of the blade, since the rust spots sit differently from copy to copy.
• Check whether the copy is StatTrak™ or has a name tag if either matters to you.

Who should buy Well-Worn

• Players who want a knife with a light, readable blade and only moderate rust.
• Buyers who like the worn theme but prefer to keep the steel visible.
• Conclusion: the more balanced and cleaner-looking version of the finish.