AUG | Spalted Wood (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This AUG pairs a dark metal upper with a warm wood-grain body, foregrip and magazine, giving it a quiet, natural look. In Minimal Wear the print is practically intact, and the few marks that may appear sit on edges where the busy grain hides them well. It offers the clean look of the top grade at a lower position in the wear scale.

Item type: rifle. The weapon is available only on the Counter-Terrorist side. Industrial Grade is the second tier from the bottom: common skins from drops and collections.

Hydrographic: the pattern is applied as a film over the metal; wear rubs it down to the base, starting with raised parts.

The remaining qualities of this skin: Factory New, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The receiver's lower body and the stock carry a brown hydrographic print of streaked, dried wood with dark veins running lengthwise. The barrel, top rail, scope and upper receiver are left in plain dark gunmetal, so the wood is framed by metal.

Tiny marks may appear on the bottom of the magazine and the sharpest edges of the stock. The streaked pattern hides them well, so they are hard to spot even when inspecting. In game this grade is practically indistinguishable from Factory New. The body, foregrip and metal upper look clean.

Minimal Wear wear: float 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of AUG | Spalted Wood is 0–0.48; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (17% of the scale). The lower the float within the range, the cleaner the surface looks and the higher a copy is usually priced.

Origin of the skin

The skin’s collection is The 2021 Dust 2 Collection with 19 skins in total.

It drops from:

• Antwerp 2022 Dust II Souvenir Package
• Austin 2025 Dust II Souvenir Highlight Package
• Austin 2025 Dust II Souvenir Package
• Budapest 2025 Dust II Souvenir Highlight Package
• Budapest 2025 Dust II Souvenir Package
• Rio 2022 Dust II Souvenir Package

And 2 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Among 4 skins of the AUG in the Industrial Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 2nd by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Which stickers suit it

Brown, gold, beige and black stickers match the wood grain and the dark upper. Placements on the side of the stock or the receiver near the rail sit well against the plain areas without breaking the pattern.

What to check before buying

• Check the float position within the wear, since early and late copies of the same grade differ noticeably on the magazine and stock edges.
• Inspect the magazine and foregrip first, as these lose the print before the rest of the rifle.
• Souvenir copies come with fixed stickers, so make sure their look suits you before buying.
• Look for applied stickers or a name tag on regular copies and decide whether they add anything for you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who need an intact pattern as a base.
• Conclusion: the sensible compromise between appearance and cost.