Souvenir Tec-9 | Bamboo Forest (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

The skin pairs a cream body with green bamboo strokes and dark accents on the shroud and grip. In Minimal Wear the print looks practically the same as the cleanest grade at normal viewing distance, with only tiny marks on edges if any. It gives nearly the full look while usually being the more sensible pick of the two top grades.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Consumer Grade is the lowest tier of the rarity scale: the most common skins, most often used in trade-up contracts.

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 and barrel shroud are covered in a cream base with lime and pale green bamboo leaves and stalks applied as loose brush strokes, plus scattered dark specks. The ventilation holes on the shroud and the muzzle are dark, which frames the light front of the gun.

Small scuffs may appear on the muzzle tip and the sharpest shroud edges. The receiver, frame and grip still look untouched. At normal distance in game the difference from the cleanest grade is hard to notice. The bamboo strokes keep their full colour.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The float of Souvenir Tec-9 | Bamboo Forest ranges from 0 to 0.6; the Minimal Wear quality covers 0.07–0.15 — 13% 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

The skin’s collection is The Rising Sun Collection with 16 skins in total. It does not drop from a case: the collection has none — such skins come from operation drops, souvenir packages or the market.

Price by quality

Among 7 skins of the Tec-9 in the Consumer Grade grade and this quality, this skin is the dearest.

Souvenir version

This is the Souvenir version: such copies dropped to tournament viewers in souvenir packages; the team stickers and signatures on them cannot be removed or chosen. Souvenir items never carry StatTrak™. There is also the regular version without tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Green, cream, white and black stickers sit naturally on this finish, as do paper or brush-style designs that echo the painted bamboo. Placing them on the receiver side keeps the leafy shroud visible.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear grade, since the cream base makes even small scratches visible.
• Look at the muzzle, shroud edges and top rail first, as these lose the print earliest.
• The hydrographic placement shifts between copies, so compare how the leaves fall on the receiver and grip.
• A Souvenir version exists, so check whether the copy carries stickers and whether they suit you.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want an almost clean look without chasing the top grade.
• Crafters for whom tiny edge marks do not matter under stickers.
• A practical way to get nearly the full finish.