★ StatTrak™ M9 Bayonet | Slaughter (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ M9 Bayonet | Slaughter is a knife with a deep tomato-red candy coat over light and dark zebra stripes, so the blade looks like layered red flame. In Factory New the coat is glossy and unbroken, and the contrast between the bright and dark stripes is at its sharpest. This grade is for buyers who want the finish exactly as intended, with no bare steel showing on the tip or spine teeth.

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.

Appearance in Factory New

The whole blade is covered with a tomato-red candy coat laid over a zebra-like stripe pattern, where brighter pinkish bands alternate with darker crimson ones. The stripes run diagonally along the blade, from the tip past the finger hole down to the ricasso, and their exact layout differs from copy to copy.

The candy coat is intact from tip to ricasso, with no exposed steel on the edge or the spine teeth. The stripes keep full contrast and the red has an even, deep gloss. In game the blade looks saturated and clean from any angle of the inspect animation. The guard, the ring and the pommel keep their pink tint without marks.

Factory New quality — float range 0.01–0.07

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ M9 Bayonet | Slaughter is 0.01–0.26; Factory New takes the 0.01–0.07 segment (24% 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:

• CS:GO Weapon Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 2 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• CS:GO Weapon Case 3 (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Operation Bravo Case (on sale since Sep 20, 2013)
• Winter Offensive Weapon Case (on sale since Dec 18, 2013)
• eSports 2013 Case (on sale since Jul 9, 2014)

And 5 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 23% cheaper
• Field-Tested — 20% cheaper

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

Among 23 skins of the M9 Bayonet in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 9th by price, counting from 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 13% dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, because low-float copies show noticeably less bare steel at the tip and spine.
• Look at the stripe layout in the inspect view, since some buyers value copies with clear, recognisable shapes on the visible side of the blade.
• Inspect the spine teeth and the cutting edge closely, as these parts lose the coat first.
• Check for a name tag and the StatTrak™ counter if either matters to you.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the candy coat completely intact and the stripes at full contrast.
• Players who inspect their knife often and notice every mark on the tip.
• The choice for an untouched finish.