★ Skeleton Knife | Tiger Tooth (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Skeleton Knife | Tiger Tooth pairs an orange-gold anodized blade with darker amber stripes running diagonally across the steel. In Factory New the colour is even from tip to ring, and the stripes keep crisp edges that catch the light on inspection. This is the grade for a buyer who wants the finish exactly as it was 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.

Appearance in Factory New

The whole blade, from the tip to the finger ring, is anodized in a saturated orange-gold, with darker amber tiger stripes set at an angle along its length. The polished cutting edge runs as a thin light line along the lower side, and a row of small holes near the spine breaks up the stripe pattern. The finger ring and the guard area keep the same gold colour, while the handle is wrapped in black tape with orange metal showing between the wraps and at the pommel around the lanyard hole. On worn copies the anodizing first lightens on the tip, along the edges of the blade and around the ring, where the colour sits on the most exposed metal.

In Factory New the anodizing is uniform across the blade, the ring and the exposed parts of the handle. Copies closer to the top of the grade may show the faintest specks on the tip or the edge only under close inspection. In game the knife reads as solid gold with clear dark stripes, with no visible difference from a perfect copy at normal distance. The tape on the handle and the orange pommel look clean.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The float of ★ Skeleton Knife | Tiger Tooth ranges from 0 to 0.08; the Factory New quality covers 0–0.07 — 88% of this skin’s scale. The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It is the rare special item of Fever Case — knives and gloves drop far less often than the regular contents.

Price by quality

Among 17 skins of the Skeleton Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 12th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 6% dearer than the regular one.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the grade, since copies near the upper boundary of Factory New can already show tiny specks on the tip.
• Inspect the tip, the blade edges and the finger ring, as these are the first places where the anodizing lightens.
• Compare the price gap between Factory New and Minimal Wear, because the visual difference in game is very small.
• Check whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it has a name tag, if either matters to you.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the anodized gold without any marks on inspection.
• Players who often inspect the knife and notice small details on the tip and edges.
• Conclusion: the reference version of the finish for those who value a clean surface.