
The ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand in Field-Tested (FT) is a bowie with a purple blade scrawled over in white marker. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. The cases that carry it are Operation Riptide and Dreams & Nightmares. The finish has five wears, but its float scale stops at 0.48, which leaves Battle-Scarred only the 0.45 to 0.48 band. Field-Tested spans 0.15 to 0.38, or 48% of the scale.
What the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand looks like in Field-Tested
Valve says the blade was first painted black and purple, then drawn over with metallic marker. That is how the flat looks: white and silver lines, angular marks and arcs run thickly across a dark gray and purple field. The handle is black, while the guard and the end cap are purple.
Listings of the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand between 0.15 and 0.38 differ noticeably in appearance. In CS2 wear settles first on the tip of the blade and on the saw.
What to check before buying
Choosing a specific ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand comes down to these points:
- float: this wear of the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand is assigned 0.15 to 0.38, and it is the numbers you compare before paying;
- the condition of the tip and the saw: it shows how much wear the knife has taken inside the band;
- the applied name: a name tag can be put on a bowie, and the inscription outlives the purchase.
What the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand costs in Field-Tested
Field-Tested is the cheapest wear of this finish, and all the others cost more. Minimal Wear is 11% higher, Well-Worn 13%, Battle-Scarred 22% and Factory New 30%.
Among Covert bowie finishes, Freehand lies in the middle of the row. Night costs 4% more and Forest DDPAT 2%, while Ultraviolet is 5% cheaper, Urban Masked 9% and Scorched 13%. At the top of the row, Crimson Web costs 1.7 times as much, Case Hardened more than twice as much, and Slaughter 2.7 times.
Getting the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand
This bowie comes out of two cases, Operation Riptide and Dreams & Nightmares. Valve introduced Operation Riptide on September 22, 2021, and the Dreams & Nightmares Case came out on January 21, 2022. Five Covert skins from one collection can pay for a contract, but the rare special item it returns is random. A Freehand bowie is bought as a ready listing.
Is there a StatTrak version
A StatTrak version of the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand exists in the game.
Who this wear suits
Buying the ★ Bowie Knife | Freehand in this wear makes sense when:
- you want a bowie with white painting on purple, and every other wear of the finish costs more;
- it matters to take a listing with a low float from your band, since the numbers inside 0.15 to 0.38 give different looks;
- your CS2 loadout is built on purple and black, and the light painting on the blade serves as an accent.














































