★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler (Factory New) Sapphire

Skin overview

★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler (Sapphire) is a skeletonized dagger finished in a deep blue Doppler marble with violet haze running through the blade. In Factory New the candy coat is unbroken from tip to guard, so the blue keeps its full depth and the marbling reads as one continuous surface. This is the grade for a buyer who wants the Sapphire colour exactly as the finish was meant to look.

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.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The double-edged blade is covered in a marbled Doppler pattern of deep sapphire and navy, with lighter violet and pinkish clouds drifting through the middle. Darker blue streaks run diagonally along the blade, and the bevels along both edges catch a brighter, almost silver-blue sheen. The three small holes in the blade and the large finger ring at the guard sit inside the same blue colouring. The handle is wrapped in black tape, with strips of the blue finish showing through the gaps and around the lanyard hole at the end. On worn copies the tip of the blade and the edges are the first places where the coating starts to lose colour.

The blade shows no scratches, and the candy coat keeps its gloss across the tip, the edges and the finger ring. The blue and violet marbling looks saturated and even from guard to point. In game the knife reads as a clean, glowing blue shape at any distance. The blue visible between the tape wraps on the handle is also untouched.

Factory New quality — float range 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Skeleton Knife | Doppler Sapphire is 0–0.08; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (88% 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.

StatTrak™ version

This skin has a the StatTrak™ version with a kill counter.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since lower values mean a cleaner tip and edges.
• Inspect the tip of the blade on the preview, as it is the first place where the coating wears.
• Look at the balance of blue and violet on the blade, because the lighter purple clouds vary between copies.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the Sapphire phase without any visible marks.
• Players who inspect their knife often and value a flawless blade in close view.
• The choice for those who put the condition of the finish first.