AK-47 | Safety Net (Well-Worn)

Well-Worn (WW) on the AK-47 | Safety Net is the float band 0.38 to 0.45, 12% of the finish scale. The skin is Restricted and belongs to The 2018 Inferno Collection. Buying this rifle means taking a scuffed orange net, but one whose artwork still reads.

What the AK-47 | Safety Net looks like in Well-Worn

The rifle is painted in two stages. An orange net over pale cells covers the body parts, while the whole front end is painted white with no pattern: gas tube, handguard, front sight and gas block. The magazine stays dark, and the trigger and safety are metal.

In Well-Worn the wear is already legible. The thin orange bridges on the edges of the handguard and cover are thinned out. The white paint on the round gas tube and the front sight shows through in patches, and the flat planes of the receiver keep the net best of all.

Where the AK-47 | Safety Net came from

The 2018 Inferno Collection was added to the game in September 2018, and the AK-47 | Safety Net arrived in the same update. Valve itself is the author: no Steam Workshop submission stands behind it, and its Valve catalog number is 795.

What to check before buying

What to compare when choosing an AK-47 | Safety Net:

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


• what the previous owner left on the rifle, meaning stickers and an applied name;


• the artwork: the position of the cells on the handguard and the side differs from copy to copy.

The scale gives this wear only 0.38 to 0.45, so copies look alike in how worn they are.

Pattern variance on the AK-47 | Safety Net

The hydrographic technique places the net with an offset, and that decides where a particular copy ends up with a cell and where with a bridge. Csgoskins confirms pattern variation but does not single out rare variants by name. So the choice has to be made from the listing itself.

What the AK-47 | Safety Net costs in Well-Worn

• Factory New costs 2.60 times as much;


• Minimal Wear is 1.07 times dearer;


• Field-Tested is 1.42 times cheaper;


• Battle-Scarred is 1.22 times cheaper.

Of the three lowest wears, Well-Worn is the dearest: Battle-Scarred is 1.22 times cheaper, and Field-Tested is cheaper still.

Among Restricted AK-47 skins in this wear, it stands in the middle of the row: four skins are cheaper and four are dearer. Directly above it is Rat Rod; below it are Slate, Midnight Laminate, Breakthrough and Emerald Pinstripe. At the top of the row stand Blue Laminate, Orbit Mk01 and First Class.

Getting the AK-47 | Safety Net

No regular case holds the finish. Copies come from tournament Souvenir packages, for example the London 2018 Inferno Souvenir Package.

The route that skips the packages is a trade-up contract. Ten skins of the rank below, Mil-Spec, taken from anywhere, produce a skin from the collection of one of the inputs. By putting in Mil-Spec skins from The 2018 Inferno Collection, the player steers the result into that collection, where this AK-47 is one of three possible Restricted skins.

StatTrak and Souvenir

StatTrak is not available on the AK-47 | Safety Net. Souvenir copies are: eleven Inferno tournament packages include this finish.

Stickers and craft on the AK-47 | Safety Net

On a scuffed Well-Worn rifle, put stickers on the flat receiver sides and the stock: the net holds longer there, while the handguard edges are already coming apart. Dark stickers read well on the white front end.

Who this wear suits

The AK-47 | Safety Net in Well-Worn is worth buying if:

• you want a worn rifle with a readable net, and the difference from Minimal Wear is only 1.07;


• a good-looking pattern on the side matters more to you than even wear;


• you plan to put stickers on a flat side where the net has survived.

If saving money is the point, Field-Tested is 1.42 times cheaper.