Tec-9 | Brass (Minimal Wear)

Skin overview

This Tec-9 is easy to spot by the hole-punched brass shroud over the barrel and the thin brass rail running along its top. At Minimal Wear the metal keeps nearly all of its tone, with only faint dulling on the edges that is hard to notice outside the inspect view. It looks almost the same as the cleanest grade and costs the buyer less.

Item type: pistol. The weapon is available only on the Terrorist side. Mil-Spec Grade is the lowest rarity found in cases and the most common one among them.

Patina: an aged metal surface; wear is part of the design, so the gap between qualities is less visible.

Appearance in Minimal Wear

The finish is concentrated on the front of the weapon: the perforated barrel shroud is coloured in an olive-gold brass tone with round holes along its length. A thin brass rail runs along the top of the shroud, and the cocking knob is brass as well.

The first faint dulling may appear on the front edge of the shroud and the rims of a few holes. The cocking knob and rail stay almost untouched. Everything else looks clean. At normal distance in game it is practically indistinguishable from Factory New.

Minimal Wear quality — float range 0.07–0.15

The whole float range of Tec-9 | Brass is 0–1; Minimal Wear takes the 0.07–0.15 segment (8% of the scale). Within the range, copies with a lower float look cleaner and are valued higher.

Origin of the skin

Tec-9 | Brass belongs to The Inferno Collection, which holds 6 skins.

It drops from:

• Boston 2018 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• DreamHack Cluj-Napoca 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2014 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Cologne 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package
• ESL One Katowice 2015 Inferno Souvenir Package

And 2 more — souvenir packages and other sources.

What it costs in each quality

Taking Minimal Wear as the baseline:

• Factory New — 5.9× dearer
• Field-Tested — 2.7× cheaper
• Well-Worn — 2.7× cheaper
• Battle-Scarred — 2.9× cheaper

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

Among 19 skins of the Tec-9 in the Mil-Spec Grade grade and this quality, this skin ranks 4th by price, counting from the dearest.

Souvenir version

There is also a the Souvenir version with tournament stickers.

Stickers and crafts

Gold, brown and olive stickers continue the brass theme, while black or dark grey ones sit calmly on the grey receiver. Placing stickers on the flat side of the receiver keeps the perforated shroud uncovered as the main detail.

What to look at before you buy

• Check where the float sits within the wear range, since the patina on the shroud changes noticeably between the cleaner and dirtier ends of a grade.
• Inspect the shroud edges, hole rims and cocking knob, as they are the first parts to darken.
• Look at the applied stickers and name tag, and note that Souvenir copies of this skin exist.
• Compare a few listings in inspect view, because the patchiness of the brass can differ between copies of the same wear.

Who the Minimal Wear quality suits

• Players who want a near-clean look without paying for the top grade.
• Sticker crafters who need a fresh base where small wear will not show.
• Conclusion: almost Factory New in game, at a lower cost.