★ Specialist Gloves | Tiger Strike (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Specialist Gloves | Tiger Strike pairs an orange and dark brown tiger-stripe back with cream fingers and black padded knuckle guards. In Factory New the stripes are crisp, the orange is at its brightest and the cream panels are clean. This grade suits a buyer who wants the gloves exactly as designed.

Item type: gloves. Extraordinary is the gloves rarity: in cases they are the rare special item, above any weapon skin.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The back of the hand is covered in a dense orange and dark brown tiger-stripe weave, crossed by a dark strap with the word TORTUE on it. The knuckles and finger backs carry black padded guards with thin orange inlays, while the fingertips and side panels are cream with visible stitching. The palm side is bright orange with dark grey pads and cream fingers. On worn copies the cream fingertips and stitched seams darken first, followed by dulling of the orange palm and the raised edges of the knuckle guards.

The Factory New range is very narrow for these gloves, so every copy sits close to the lower float limit. Cream fingertips and stitching are clean, the orange palm is vivid and the black guards have no scuffing. In game the stripe pattern and colour contrast show exactly as on the image. Nothing on the gloves reads as worn.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Specialist Gloves | Tiger Strike is 0.06–0.8; Factory New takes the 0.06–0.07 segment (1% 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 Broken Fang Case
• Snakebite Case
• Recoil Case

What it costs in each quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 3.3× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 6.9× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 8.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 11× cheaper

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

By price this skin is 14th of 19 skins Extraordinary Specialist Gloves in this quality (the first being the dearest).

What to look at before you buy

• Check the float position within the wear range, since cleaner floats keep the cream fingertips noticeably lighter.
• Inspect the cream fingers and stitching first, as they show dirt earlier than any other part.
• Look at the orange palm in the inspect view, because its brightness drops steadily with wear and you see it often in game.
• Compare a few copies in the same grade, as a low float in a worn grade can look close to the cleaner grade above.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the cleanest possible look of the pattern.
• Players who build an orange-themed inventory and want maximum brightness.
• Choose this grade if pristine cream fingers matter to you.