AK-47 | Red Laminate (Well-Worn)

Well-Worn (WW) on the AK-47 | Red Laminate is 9% of the skin's scale at a price nearly equal to Battle-Scarred. Only the wood is painted, and the metal stays dark. The skin is Classified rank and has a single case, the eSports 2013 Case.

What the AK-47 | Red Laminate looks like in Well-Worn

Two zones are clearly separated: scarlet wood and dark metal. The red wood sits on the handguard, gas tube cover, grip and stock; its grain is dark cherry and forms rings on the stock. The receiver, cover, barrel and magazine are dark metal, with no lettering or marks.

In Well-Worn light edges are already noticeable on the corners of the stock and along the handguard, and the grain turns pink there. The central planes of the wood still hold a saturated color, so the contrast with the metal remains.

Where the AK-47 | Red Laminate came from

Valve drew the AK-47 | Red Laminate, and there is no Steam Workshop submission for this finish. The skin's catalog number is 14.

The skin came out together with The eSports 2013 Collection, on August 14, 2013.

What to check before buying

Lots are compared on these points:

• the float: the wear band in this wear is 0.38 to 0.45;


• the corners of the stock and the handguard edge: how pink the grain turns there;


• a name tag and stickers already carried by this rifle.

The artwork is the same in every lot, and the pattern index does not affect the choice. You can buy here almost blind: the 0.38 to 0.45 band is tight.

What the AK-47 | Red Laminate costs in Well-Worn

Against the other wears:

• Factory New is almost ten times the price;


• Minimal Wear is roughly 1.6 times the price;


• Field-Tested is about seven percent cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred costs the same, with a difference under three percent.

The price does not follow the order of wear: Well-Worn costs more than Field-Tested. Well-Worn takes 9% of the scale, while Field-Tested takes about a third.

Among Classified AK-47 finishes in this wear, the skin sits above the middle: ten are cheaper and four cost more. AK-47 | Redline is half the price, AK-47 | Cartel 2.4 times cheaper, AK-47 | Point Disarray three times cheaper and AK-47 | Frontside Misty 3.4 times cheaper.

Getting the AK-47 | Red Laminate

The eSports 2013 Case is the only case the skin drops from.

Ten skins one rank lower in a trade-up yield it as well. Galil AR | Orange DDPAT is one example. If they come from this skin's collection, the chance of the result is one in two.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is available on this skin. Souvenir copies are out there too, even without a tournament package for the finish: those packages were made only for the tournament map collections. The Souvenir-O-Matic creates them, adding gold tournament stickers and a player autograph to a regular skin from your inventory.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Red Laminate

The dark metal takes stickers without arguing with the finish: the receiver and magazine are flat, and both light and bright stickers read on them. Scarlet wood suits white and black. In CS2 a single sticker on the receiver is enough for a craft.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn is the right pick on the AK-47 | Red Laminate if:

• you want a red wooden AK for CS2 with visibly scuffed wood;


• you do not want to overpay: Factory New costs almost ten times as much;


• you want a narrow float band with a predictable look.

Between Well-Worn and Battle-Scarred the price differs by under three percent, so only the look of the wood decides the choice.