★ Flip Knife | Fade (Factory New)

★ Flip Knife | Fade in Factory New (FN) is a flip knife with a color transition from violet to yellow. It has the Covert rank, with the ★ mark, and drops from eleven cases, from the CS:GO Weapon Case to the Revolver Case. The finish comes in two wears: its float scale ends at 0.08, and Factory New takes the stretch from 0.00 to 0.07.

What the ★ Flip Knife | Fade looks like in Factory New

The blade changes color smoothly along its length: violet and blue at the tip, then crimson and red, shifting to orange and yellow at the heel. A serrated section sits on the edge near the heel. The handle is dark, olive-gray, with lengthwise ribs.

Valve describes the finish as transparent paints airbrushed over a chrome base. The blade surface in Factory New has no chipped spots. Wear is fixed at the drop, and copies with a float of 0.01 and of 0.06 stay as they are forever.

Phase and pattern

The Fade has no phases, so there is nothing to choose in the listing title. Copies are compared by the picture of the listing itself and not by the caption. In Doppler and Gamma Doppler the phase is part of the name, and in this finish it is not.

What to check before buying

Before paying for the ★ Flip Knife | Fade, it helps to check:

• the listing picture: the colors on the blade are read from it, not from the title;


• the name tag: the flip knife takes a name, and an applied inscription passes to the buyer;


• the float: for this wear the ★ Flip Knife | Fade has a short stretch, 0.00 to 0.07, so chasing the number is pointless.

What the ★ Flip Knife | Fade costs in Factory New

Minimal Wear costs about a third more than Factory New. Its band is narrow, 0.07 to 0.08, a hundredth of the float scale.

Among Covert flip knife finishes, the Fade stands in the lower half of the row. Doppler Phase 1 is almost level with it, Doppler Phase 3 costs an eighth more, and Boreal Forest, Slaughter and Lore are slightly cheaper. Bright Water, Damascus Steel and Freehand cost half as much. Gamma Doppler Emerald, Doppler Ruby and Doppler Black Pearl cost about five times as much.

Getting the ★ Flip Knife | Fade

The knife drops from eleven cases, beginning with the first CS:GO Weapon Case, and the wear at the drop is random. There is also the craft: five Covert skins of one collection give one rare special item, but its model and finish are left to chance. Only an existing listing lets you pick the Fade on purpose.

Is there a StatTrak version

The ★ Flip Knife | Fade has a StatTrak version.

Who this wear suits

Factory New is a sensible buy for the ★ Flip Knife | Fade in these cases:

• you want a flip knife for CS2 with a bright palette from violet to yellow;


• you want the whole stretch from 0.00 to 0.07, not the narrow Minimal Wear strip;


• it matters that the chrome base under the paint is intact.