★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife | Doppler (Factory New) Black Pearl

Skin overview

★ Gut Knife | Doppler (Black Pearl) is the dark phase of the Doppler finish on the Gut Knife: a deep black-blue blade with a marbled pattern and violet and silver highlights. In Factory New the candy coat looks continuous, so the marbling reads as depth under glass rather than a flat print. The orange wooden grip gives the dark blade a warm contrast.

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.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear.

Appearance in Factory New

The finish covers the blade, from the gut hook and serrated spine down to the tip, in a marbled mix of black and deep blue. Lighter violet and silver veins run through the darker areas, and the polished edge bevels catch the light as thin bright outlines.

A Factory New copy shows the blade coating without visible scratches across its whole surface. The marbling, the violet veins and the bright edge outlines all read cleanly in the inspect view and at normal distance. The tip and the area around the gut hook look as polished as the rest of the blade. The wooden grip and black fittings look the same as on any other copy.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Gut Knife | Doppler Black Pearl is 0–0.08; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (88% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Chroma Case (on sale since Jan 8, 2015)
• Chroma 2 Case (on sale since Apr 15, 2015)
• Chroma 3 Case

StatTrak™ version

This is the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon shows confirmed kills. There is also the regular version without the counter.

What to check before buying

• Make sure the listing really is the Black Pearl phase and not another Doppler phase with a dark blade.
• Check where the float sits within the range, since Minimal Wear copies sit right next to Factory New.
• Inspect the tip and the cutting edge, where the first scratches usually show.
• See whether the copy is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, if that matters to you.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want this phase with a clean blade in inspect.
• Players who often inspect their knife and want the marbling to read without marks.
• Conclusion: the choice for those who want the Black Pearl at its cleanest.