★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel (Field-Tested)

★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel in Field-Tested (FT): a dagger cut from a blue-steel blank, with a dark handle. Covert rank, with the ★ mark. In CS2 the skeleton knife comes out of the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case. The float of the finish runs from 0.00 to 1.00 across five wears, and Field-Tested occupies 23% of that scale.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel looks like in Field-Tested

The double-sided blade gives off a cold blue, lighter on the flat and darker on the bevels. Near the handle the blade is cut with one large round finger hole and three small ones. The grip is wrapped in dark cord with a gray-green tint. Valve adds that the steel has been cold-blued.

Marks show first on the point and along the bevel edges, and in Field-Tested they are already there. Wear is locked in when the knife drops and does not deepen afterward.

What to check before buying

On a listing of this skeleton knife, check these points:

• float: the wear label says little until you see the number inside the 0.15 to 0.38 band;


• applied name: the skeleton knife takes a name tag but has no sticker slots;


• the wear in the title: Factory New (FN) costs almost twice as much, while Well-Worn (WW) and Battle-Scarred (BS) are only slightly cheaper.

What the ★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs almost twice as much, and Minimal Wear (MW) 16% more. Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred are each about 4% cheaper, which puts the three lower wears at almost the same price.

Among Covert skeleton knives, this finish is fourth from the top by price. Case Hardened, Crimson Web and Slaughter are above it. Below come Stained and the cheapest trio of Safari Mesh, Boreal Forest and Forest DDPAT.

Getting the ★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel

This skeleton knife drops from the Shattered Web Case and the Fracture Case, with wear assigned at random. For a different route there is the contract: five Covert skins from one collection yield a rare special item, in which the model and finish cannot be assigned.

Is there a StatTrak version

A StatTrak™ version of the ★ Skeleton Knife | Blue Steel exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested makes sense for this skeleton knife in three cases:

• you want a cold blue blade with dark wrapping and no markup for the upper wears;


• you pick the float by hand inside 0.15 to 0.38;


• your CS2 loadout is assembled from steel and dark tones.