★ Talon Knife | Safari Mesh (Factory New)

Skin overview

★ Talon Knife | Safari Mesh is a curved karambit-style knife covered in a muted olive and khaki mesh pattern. In Factory New the stencilled net lines and soft blotches stay crisp across the blade and grip, so the camouflage reads as an even, deliberate finish. Copies in this grade sit in a narrow slice at the clean end of the float range.

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 an olive, khaki and grey-green palette with a fine net pattern sprayed over it and soft darker blotches on top. The curved blade carries darker mottling along the spine, a row of serrated teeth near the base and three round holes, while the cutting edge shows a lighter steel band. The grip continues the same mesh in a slightly lighter olive tone up to the finger ring at the end. On worn copies the paint goes first from the cutting edge, the tip, the spine teeth and the outer rim of the ring, then spreads across the flat of the blade.

The mesh and blotches are intact on the blade, spine and grip. The teeth and the finger ring keep their full coat of paint. In game the knife looks uniformly olive with a clear net texture. Everything reads clean.

Factory New wear: float 0.06–0.07

The float of ★ Talon Knife | Safari Mesh ranges from 0.06 to 0.8; the Factory New quality covers 0.06–0.07 — 1% of this skin’s scale. Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Where the skin comes from: collection and case

It drops as a rare special item from:

• Horizon Case
• Danger Zone Case

Price by quality

Taking Factory New as the baseline:

• Minimal Wear — 2.1× cheaper
• Field-Tested — 2.3× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.2× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 2.2× 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 13th 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× dearer than the regular one.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the grade, since cleaner values keep more paint on the edge and teeth.
• Look at the cutting edge, tip and finger ring first, as these lose paint before the rest of the knife.
• Compare the blade flat on inspect screenshots, because worn copies differ in how much of the mesh survives there.
• Decide whether you need the StatTrak™ version, which exists for this knife.

Who the Factory New quality suits

• Collectors who want the camouflage in its cleanest, fully even form.
• Players who care about a spotless knife in first-person view.
• The choice for those who want the neatest copy of this finish.