★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel (Field-Tested)

In Field-Tested (FT), the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel sits in the middle of the finish's wear ladder. Factory New costs a quarter more, Well-Worn costs the same, and Battle-Scarred is actually a little dearer. It has Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and it comes out of the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case. In CS2 it is a butterfly knife without a single spot of color: just steel and black metal.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is steel-gray, with a wavy pattern running along it like genuine Damascus: dark and light streaks merge into currents. The handle is black with round holes drilled through it, and inserts of the same patterned metal sit in the long cutouts. The latch hook and the pin at the butt are black too. The finish has no color at all; everything plays out in shades of gray.

Field-Tested gives the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel a float band of 0.15 to 0.38. The closer the number is to 0.15, the cleaner the metal, and toward the upper edge the wear is easier to see. The wear is set when the knife drops and stays put.

What to check before buying

These are the points that separate one ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel listing from another:

• float: the band is long, and between 0.15 and 0.38 there is a difference you can see with your eyes;


• name tag: you can put a custom name on the knife;


• version: a StatTrak listing is a separate item with its own price.

What the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel costs in Field-Tested

Among Covert butterfly knives priced in this wear, Damascus Steel stands in the upper third: thirteen finishes are cheaper and four are dearer. Its closest neighbors are Autotronic, an eighth higher, and Blue Steel, a ninth higher. Case Hardened is almost level, while Crimson Web and Lore are slightly cheaper. The most affordable finishes on the model are Safari Mesh, Forest DDPAT and Boreal Forest.

Set against the other wears, the price gaps are these:

• Factory New is 1.23 times dearer;


• Minimal Wear is 1.09 times dearer;


• Well-Worn is level, within three percent;


• Battle-Scarred is 1.05 times dearer.

So Well-Worn saves nothing against Field-Tested: for the same money, the Field-Tested knife has the lower float.

Getting the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel

The knife drops from the Spectrum Case and the Spectrum 2 Case, and the wear you get is random. The second route is a craft: it takes five Covert skins of one type, with normal and StatTrak kept apart. What comes back is one random rare special item. Neither the model nor the finish is yours to pick.

Is there a StatTrak version

Yes, the game has a StatTrak version of the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested is a sensible pick for the ★ Butterfly Knife | Damascus Steel in these cases:

• you want a butterfly knife without color, a gray blade to go with black and dark loadouts;


• you want a Well-Worn price but with a float closer to 0.15;


• you can spare the time to compare listings: the band here runs from 0.15 to 0.38, which is long enough that checking several is worth it.