★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web (Factory New)

On the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web, Factory New (FN) is the top condition, because the wear scale starts at 0.06. Covert rank, with a ★ in front of the name. The model reached CS:GO with Operation Breakout, and this finish has exactly one case behind it. By price it stands fifth from the top among the model's Covert finishes.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web looks like in Factory New

The blade is a deep red, nearly burgundy at the heel, with the web laid over it in black. The net crowds toward the heel and the spine, thinning near the point, where clean red is left. Both handles are black throughout, with no colored inserts or stripes, unlike Doppler on the same model. The latch is red, while the hinge screws and the lock stay bare metal. Threads radiate from several knots, and the lacquer lightens along the edge.

The condition runs from 0.06 to 0.07. The cutting edge and the raised handle ribs give way first, red there going down to gray metal. Factory New carries none of that: edge and ribs stay under lacquer.

Phase and pattern

The pattern here is rolled at random. The index decides where the net lands and how many centers it has, meaning the points the threads run out from. One or two centers on the blade is ordinary; three or more is the rarest case, and those copies cost more.

So the image of a given listing settles it, not the name. The finish has no phases in CS2, and the pattern is never marked in the title. On a butterfly blade the net shows up most at the heel and the spine, and the centers get counted there.

What to check before buying

Worth checking before buying:

• the float, which stops at 0.07 here and shifts nothing the eye can catch;


• the applied name, since a name tag travels with the item to its buyer;


• the version, as StatTrak is a listing of its own;


• the handles in the photo: black and bare on Crimson Web, which is how the finish is told from Doppler.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web costs in Factory New

The band is cramped, and listings at either end differ by the number alone. Between conditions the distance is wider: Minimal Wear (MW) comes in five times cheaper, Field-Tested and Well-Worn about eight times, Battle-Scarred nine.

Among the butterfly knife's Covert finishes this one is fifth by price. Four Doppler variants sit above it: Black Pearl, Ruby, Sapphire and the emerald Gamma Doppler. The ordinary phases fall below, Butterfly Knife | Doppler Phase 1 at about half. The model's cheapest Covert finishes, Butterfly Knife | Bright Water and Butterfly Knife | Freehand, run around eight times cheaper.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web

There is one case: the Operation Breakout Weapon Case. The knife comes out of it as the rare ★ item, in whatever condition drops.

The second way is a contract: five Covert skins from one collection turn into a random rare special item, with no choice of model or finish at the input. A particular condition comes from a finished listing.

StatTrak and Souvenir

A StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web exists; no Souvenir release was made.

Who this wear suits

Buying the ★ Butterfly Knife | Crimson Web here is reasonable in these cases:

• contrast is the aim: a red blade against wholly black handles;


• clean handle ribs matter, since a higher float takes the red off them down to metal;


• the knife is bought to keep: inside this condition there is no float premium to pay.