★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife | Black Laminate (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Flip Knife keeps a quiet, utilitarian look: a dark stonewashed blade with a serrated spine and a handle in layered laminate with slanted grooves. In Minimal Wear any light marks blend into the stonewashed blade, so at normal distance it reads almost the same as a cleaner copy. That makes this grade a sensible way to get the same appearance for less.

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 Minimal Wear

The back-swept blade has a stonewashed finish: dark grey steel covered in a fine, uneven mottled texture with lighter streaks. The spine near the base carries a row of serrations, and the pivot area is a darker, near-black metal.

Faint marks may appear along the cutting edge and near the tip, but they merge with the stonewash. The serrations and pivot remain dark. The handle still looks untouched. At normal distance it is hard to tell from a Factory New copy.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Flip Knife | Black Laminate is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 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 as a rare special item from:

• Gamma Case
• Gamma 2 Case

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 2× dearer
• Field-Tested — 16% cheaper
• Well-Worn — 19% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 18% cheaper

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

By price this skin is 15th of 23 skins Covert Flip Knife in this quality (the first being the dearest).

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter. Right now the StatTrak™ version is 29% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the blade edge and tip show the difference first.
• Inspect the serrated spine and the tip in close-up, as these parts reveal wear sooner than the flat of the blade.
• Look at the handle's raised edges and grooves on worn copies to see how much of the laminate texture is left.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ and whether it carries a name tag that you would want to keep.

Who should buy Minimal Wear

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Buyers who value the stonewash style, which hides light marks well.
• Conclusion: the most balanced choice between look and cost.