Souvenir Tec-9 | Garter-9 (Factory New)

Skin overview

Tec-9 | Garter-9 is a Terrorist pistol in an olive finish, with a green snakeskin print over the upper receiver and barrel shroud. In Factory New the scales stay sharp and evenly coloured, and the lime accents around the shroud holes read clearly. This grade shows the print exactly as intended, with no breaks in the pattern.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the 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.

Other qualities of this skin: Minimal Wear, Field-Tested, Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred.

How the skin looks in Factory New

The upper receiver and the perforated barrel shroud carry a green snakeskin print with yellowish highlights on the scales. The rims of the shroud holes and the muzzle are picked out in bright lime, which frames the pattern.

The snakeskin print is complete, with every scale and highlight intact. The lime rims and the muzzle keep their full colour. The olive lower and the magazine are clean and even. In game the pistol looks fresh from every angle.

Factory New wear: float 0–0.07

The whole float range of Souvenir Tec-9 | Garter-9 is 0–0.7; Factory New takes the 0–0.07 segment (10% 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 Boreal Collection with 29 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.

What it costs in each quality

By price this skin is 3rd of 8 skins Industrial Grade Tec-9 in this quality (the first being 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.

Which stickers suit it

Green, lime, yellow and black stickers sit naturally on this finish. Placements on the plain olive lower receiver stand out best, while the scaled top is better left uncovered or paired with a single small sticker.

What to check before buying

• Check the float within the wear range, since copies near the cleaner end of a grade keep more of the lime rims.
• Look at the muzzle and the shroud hole edges first, as these show wear before anything else.
• Souvenir copies come with stickers already applied, so check whether they match the green finish.
• Review any name tag or stickers on the listing, as they change how the pistol reads in game.

Who should buy Factory New

• Collectors who want the snakeskin print with no breaks at all.
• Sticker crafters who need a clean olive base.
• Conclusion: the grade for those who want the finish exactly as designed.