★ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate is a pair of push daggers with dark stonewashed blades and handles in layered black, grey and white laminate. In Factory New the stripes on the grips are crisp and evenly contrasted, and the light swirl at the base of each blade has sharp edges. This is the grade where the wood-like layering reads most clearly against the matte steel.

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

Gunsmith: several techniques combined on one item; some parts rub off, others only dull.

How the skin looks in Factory New

Both blades carry a dark grey stonewashed finish with a mottled, uneven texture and a slightly lighter edge toward the tip. The T-shaped handles are covered in wavy laminate stripes of black, grey and white that follow the curves of the grips and wrap around the finger cutouts. The same layered pattern continues as a swirl onto the base of each blade near the guard, linking the handle and the steel. On worn copies the light stripes fade first on the outer rims of the grips, around the edges of the openings and on the guard, while the blade tip and edge pick up scratches early.

The laminate stripes on the handles are sharp, with clean transitions between black, grey and white. The swirl at the blade base keeps crisp borders, and the stonewashed texture shows only its intended mottling. In game the pair looks clean and contrasted at any distance. Every part of both daggers appears untouched.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Shadow Daggers | Black Laminate is 0–1; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (7% 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:

• Operation Riptide Case
• Dreams & Nightmares Case

What it costs in each quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 1.6× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 1.7× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 1.7× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 1.7× cheaper

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

By price this skin is 19th of 23 skins Covert Shadow Daggers 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 1.8× dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the chosen wear, since copies near the cleaner end keep noticeably sharper stripes.
• Inspect the rims of the grips and the edges of the finger openings, as the laminate fades there first.
• Look at the blade tip and edge in the inspect view, because scratches show early on the stonewashed steel.
• Note whether the knife carries a name tag and whether you want it, since knives do not take stickers.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the laminate stripes at their sharpest.
• Players who prefer a clean, high-contrast monochrome knife in hand.
• The best choice if crisp detail matters more than saving.