★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe (Well-Worn)

Skin overview

This karambit keeps its dark blue striped silhouette, but in Well-Worn a good part of the blade has lost paint to bright steel. The handle and finger ring still hold the stripe pattern more firmly than the blade. The contrast between scuffed steel and the dark grip gives the knife a used, field-gear character.

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 Well-Worn

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.

Large areas of the blade, especially the front half and the spine, are bare steel with only fragments of the stripes left. The bolster is heavily scuffed and the raised contours of the grip and the finger ring start to lose paint. The darker recessed parts of the handle still show the pattern. In game the knife reads as a steel blade on a worn dark blue handle.

Well-Worn wear: float 0.38–0.45

The whole float range of ★ Talon Knife | Night Stripe is 0.06–0.8; Well-Worn takes the 0.38–0.45 segment (9% 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

Taking Well-Worn as the baseline:

• Factory New — 3.8× dearer
• Minimal Wear — 21% dearer
• Field-Tested — 2% cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 3% cheaper

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

Among 13 skins of the Talon Knife in the Covert grade and this quality, this skin ranks 8th 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 1.6× dearer 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 Well-Worn quality suits

• Budget-minded players who care more about the knife model than about a clean blade.
• Those who like the contrast of bare steel against a dark striped handle.
• Conclusion: a cheaper entry with clear character, if visible wear does not bother you.