★ StatTrak™ Paracord Knife | Blue Steel (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Paracord Knife | Blue Steel is a survival knife with a cold-blued blade and a handle wrapped in grey paracord. In Factory New the bluing is even and deep, so the blade reads as a clean dark blue-grey surface without marks. This is the condition for buyers who want the finish exactly as intended.

Item type: knife. Covert is the top weapon rarity: usually the most prominent items of a collection or case.

Patina: an aged metal surface; wear is part of the design, so the gap between qualities is less visible.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The blade is covered in a cold-blued patina that gives it a dark blue to blue-grey tone, slightly lighter along the bevel and darker on the flat. The long slot cutout and the small holes along the spine break up the surface and catch light against the blued steel.

The bluing covers the blade evenly with no visible scratches on the edge, tip or spine. Tonal variation comes only from the patina itself, not from wear. In game the blade reads as a smooth dark blue surface that reflects light cleanly. The paracord handle and pommel look the same as in every other grade.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of ★ StatTrak™ Paracord Knife | Blue Steel is 0–1; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (7% 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:

• Shattered Web Case
• Fracture Case

What it costs in each quality

Compared with the Factory New quality, the others go like this:

• Minimal Wear — 2.6× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 2.8× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.7× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 2.7× cheaper

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

Among 17 skins of the Paracord Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 8th 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 1.9× dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Look at the inspect screenshots, since the patina pattern changes how blue or how dark the blade appears.
• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, as copies near the cleaner end of a grade show fewer scratches on the edge and tip.
• Examine the tip, cutting edge and spine closely, because these parts lose the bluing first.
• Note whether the copy is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, as both affect what you are paying for.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the bluing completely untouched.
• Players who watch their knife in inspect animations and want a clean surface.
• Conclusion: the choice for a flawless blued blade.