AK-47 | Red Laminate (Minimal Wear)

Minimal Wear (MW) on the AK-47 | Red Laminate leaves the red wood nearly intact, at a price 6.3 times below Factory New. This wear is 11% of the skin's scale. It is Classified rank, and the eSports 2013 Case is where it drops.

What the AK-47 | Red Laminate looks like in Minimal Wear

The wood is the main thing here: the stock, handguard, gas tube cover and grip are stained scarlet with dark cherry swirls of layers. On the stock the grain gathers into large rings, and on the handguard it runs lengthwise. The rest of the rifle is dark bare metal: receiver, cover, barrel and magazine.

In Minimal Wear the first light marks collect on the corners of the stock and the edges of the handguard. The grain there fades to pinkish only at the very edges, and the flat areas of wood hold their color.

Where the AK-47 | Red Laminate came from

The AK-47 | Red Laminate entered the game on August 14, 2013.

The finish has no Workshop submission: it was drawn inside Valve. In the Valve catalog its number is 14.

What to check before buying

A lot is picked by these signs:

• the float: the wear band in this wear is 0.07 to 0.15;


• the corners of the stock and the edges of the handguard, where the grain lightens first;


• a name tag and stickers, which stay on the lot.

There is no pattern variance: what one lot shows, the others show. The 0.07 to 0.15 stretch is short, and the difference between lots falls within the margin of error.

What the AK-47 | Red Laminate costs in Minimal Wear

How the other wears compare:

• Factory New costs about 6.3 times as much;


• Field-Tested is about 1.7 times cheaper;


• Well-Worn is about 1.6 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is also about 1.6 times cheaper.

Among Classified AK-47 finishes in this wear, the skin sits above the middle: nine are cheaper and five cost more. AK-47 | Redline is about 1.6 times higher. AK-47 | Frontside Misty is about three times cheaper, and AK-47 | Cartel, AK-47 | Nouveau Rouge and AK-47 | Crane Flight are almost four times cheaper.

Getting the AK-47 | Red Laminate

Only the eSports 2013 Case contains this skin.

For a trade-up to return this skin, you put in ten skins one rank lower. One possible input is P250 | Splash. The result is random, and with a ten from this collection the odds are one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The AK-47 | Red Laminate comes in StatTrak. Souvenir copies turn up as well, even though no tournament package was ever made for this finish, since those covered only the tournament map collections. They are produced by the Souvenir-O-Matic, which adds gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to an ordinary skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Red Laminate

The rifle has two kinds of field: dark metal and scarlet wood. Any sticker reads on the metal, and in CS2 a craft is easiest to build there. On the wood, light stickers work better and warm ones merge in. The stock corners and handguard edges are best left free, since the lacquer is already lightening there.

Who this wear suits

Minimal Wear is worth buying on the AK-47 | Red Laminate when:

• you want a red wooden AK for CS2 in nearly factory condition;


• the price matters: Factory New costs 6.3 times as much;


• a short 0.07 to 0.15 stretch with a predictable look suits you.

If the lacquer has to stay free of light corners, only Factory New will do.