★ Bowie Knife

The ★ Bowie Knife without a skin is a fighting knife with a wide blade and no skin on it: the listing description marks it as unpainted. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. It has no wear tier, no float and no pattern either, so any two copies match down to the last detail.

What the ★ Bowie Knife looks like

The blade is wide, with a point curving downward and a convex belly. A row of sharp serrations runs along the spine. The blade is dark on top and lightens toward the cutting edge, where a bright line runs.

The guard is steel, with curled-back ends. The handle is olive green and flares slightly toward the butt, with two rivets on it; the pommel is steel, with a loop. Only the handle is green, and everything else on the knife is metal.

How the plain ★ Bowie Knife differs from a skinned one

A skin paints the blade of a Bowie Knife and sets the price of the listing. Without one the listing is simpler:

• there is no wear tier, which means no wear and no float;


• there is no artwork on the blade, so nothing to compare between copies;


• a name tag can be applied, and the inscription survives a sale;


• knives accept no stickers, because they have no slots for them.

It comes down to one choice: the normal Bowie Knife or one with a counter.

What the ★ Bowie Knife costs

Among Bowie Knife skins by starting price, the unpainted knife sits in the lower half of the range: fifteen skins cost less, nineteen more. Right below it are Bowie Knife | Lore (about a seventh cheaper), Bowie Knife | Autotronic and Bowie Knife | Damascus Steel (both by a few percent).

Above it come Bowie Knife | Blue Steel (a few percent more), Bowie Knife | Crimson Web (about a fifth) and Bowie Knife | Tiger Tooth (more than a third). The top of the range belongs to Doppler: Sapphire costs about six times as much as the unpainted knife, Ruby nearly nine times and Black Pearl more than eleven.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes: the StatTrak™ Bowie Knife is a separate item on its own page. The counter reading passes to the buyer as it stands. The premium is noticeable: the counter version costs one and a half times as much or more.

Getting the ★ Bowie Knife

The Bowie Knife drops as a rare special item from the Operation Wildfire Case, and the model has no other cases. The unpainted version lies in the same rare special item pool as the skins, so when you open the case there is no choosing between it and a skin.

Through a trade-up contract the item is random too: five Covert skins of one collection go in, and a rare special item comes out. The only way to pick an unpainted Bowie Knife is to buy a ready listing on LIS-SKINS.

Who it suits

Buying the ★ Bowie Knife without a skin makes sense when:

• you want a large knife with a dark blade and a green handle and no extra artwork;


• you would rather not deal with phases and float;


• you like the Bowie shape and see no point in paying extra for Doppler on this model.