★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe is a karambit covered in a muted night ops palette of slate blue, deep navy and grey-blue stripes laid down with a tape mask. In Factory New the stripe edges stay crisp and the paint sits as an even matte layer from the blade tip to the finger ring. Factory New copies sit in a narrow band at the very top of this skin's float range, so this is the cleanest the finish gets.

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

Spray-Paint: paint sprayed over the metal; scratches and scuffs appear early but look natural.

Appearance in Factory New

The whole knife is painted in a matte slate blue base with broad diagonal bands of deep navy and lighter grey-blue, applied with a tape mask so the stripe edges run straight across the surface. On the curved blade the stripes cross from spine to edge, while a thin bare steel bevel follows the cutting edge. The spine with its saw teeth and the three round holes carries the same paint, as do the bolster area and the contoured grip. The finger ring at the end of the handle continues the striped pattern. On worn copies the paint goes first at the blade tip, along the edge and on the spine teeth, then on the bolster and the raised contours of the grip and ring.

The paint is intact across the blade, spine, grip and finger ring, with sharp tape-mask edges on every stripe. Only the factory steel bevel along the cutting edge breaks the matte surface. In game the knife reads as a uniform dark blue striped shape with no visible marks. Copies in this grade are limited to the very start of the float range.

Factory New quality — float range 0.06–0.07

The whole float range of ★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe 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:

• Horizon Case
• Danger Zone Case

What it costs in each quality

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

• Minimal Wear — 3.1× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 3.9× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 3.8× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 3.8× cheaper

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

Among 17 skins of the Talon Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 4th by price, counting from the dearest.

StatTrak™ version

There is also a the StatTrak™ version: the counter on the weapon tracks kills. Right now it is 1.9× cheaper than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since paint loss on the blade tip and spine teeth grows quickly in the worn grades.
• Inspect the tip, the cutting edge and the saw-tooth spine first, as these parts lose paint before anything else.
• Look at how the stripes fall across the blade, because the tape-mask placement can differ between copies.
• Note whether the knife is StatTrak™ or carries a name tag, and decide if that matters to you.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the cleanest possible copy from a narrow band of floats.
• Players who like a fully intact matte camouflage with crisp stripe edges.
• Conclusion: the top grade for buyers who value an untouched finish above all.