Desert Eagle | Crimson Web (Well-Worn)

For the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web, Well-Worn (WW) sits near the lower end of the scale. The red paint and the webs are in place, but the edges are already scuffed. Restricted rank, the eSports 2014 Summer Case. Prices across the wears form an almost flat shelf at the bottom.

What the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web looks like in Well-Worn

The Deagle is red, and the webs are dark and thin. They run over the slide, frame and grip panels, with a semi-gloss lacquer on top. In Well-Worn the lacquer highlight is clearly weaker than on the clean wears. Light metal shows at the top edge of the slide, the bevels of the frame and the edge of the grip.

The strands break off at the edges where the paint has come away. The central planes of the slide and frame stay red, and the artwork as a whole is intact.

Where the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web came from

Valve drew the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web, and there is no Workshop entry for this skin. The eSports 2014 Summer Collection was released in July 2014, and the skin has been in the set since its release. Its number in Valve's catalog is 232.

What to check before buying

Points to check on this Desert Eagle | Crimson Web:

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


• pattern: how the webs lie on the slide and the frame;


• stickers and a name tag left on the copy by the previous owner.

The web pattern and how it varies

Web placement on this skin is random: listings with one float look different. At 0.38 to 0.45 the band is tight, and the listings at either end differ by nothing but the number. So the choice comes down to pattern, not digits. The wear takes 9% of the 0.06 to 0.80 range.

What the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web costs in Well-Worn

The other wears relate to this one like this:

• Factory New costs about 11.5 times as much;


• Minimal Wear costs three times as much;


• Field-Tested undercuts it by a tenth;


• Battle-Scarred undercuts it by roughly a tenth.

The three lower wears sit close together in price, and the main break falls between Minimal Wear and Factory New. Among twelve Restricted Desert Eagles in this wear, eight are cheaper and three dearer. The nearest below is Desert Eagle | Heirloom, about a fifth cheaper. Above come Desert Eagle | Pilot, Desert Eagle | Emerald Jörmungandr and Desert Eagle | Sunset Storm 弐.

Getting the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web

A Desert Eagle | Crimson Web can be assembled by trade-up: the input is ten skins of the rank below from the set. The skin drops from the eSports 2014 Summer Case, and no other case carries this finish.

StatTrak and Souvenir

The Desert Eagle | Crimson Web comes in a StatTrak version too. No package of Souvenir skins was ever issued for it.

Stickers and craft on the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web

The paint on the edges is already worn, so a sticker takes less away from this listing than from a clean wear. White and gold on red read best, and red stickers merge with the background. Keep the center of the slide for the webs and put the sticker on the frame.

Who this wear suits

Well-Worn is worth taking for the Desert Eagle | Crimson Web for these reasons:

• the price is close to the finish's lowest, while the 0.38 to 0.45 float is lower than Battle-Scarred;


• pattern can be selected: with worn edges, the webs on the flat surfaces remain the main artwork;


• you want a red Deagle for a CS2 loadout without paying extra for the factory look.