★ Karambit | Black Laminate (Field-Tested)

The ★ Karambit | Black Laminate in Field-Tested (FT) is a Covert rank CS2 karambit with the ★ mark and a laminate handle. The Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case both give it out. Its float band is shorter than the Battle-Scarred one but clearly wider than the Minimal Wear one.

What the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate looks like in Field-Tested

The blade is silver-gray with the grainy washed texture that Valve calls stonewash. The handle splits into two zones: beige-gray laminate scales along the edges and dark inserts in the finger grooves. The ring is dark, and near the heel of the blade sits a small yellow-green mark.

The float band of the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate in this wear is 0.15 to 0.38. The wear is tied to the individual knife at drop. You pick from 0.15 to 0.38, and the ends of that range look different: near the bottom the wash is more even, near the top the laminate shows more scuffs.

Phase and pattern

No "rare" pattern exists for the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate: every copy carries the same artwork. Listings differ only in float and in price.

What to check before buying

Before buying the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate, check the following:

• float: within 0.15 to 0.38 the look shifts from clean to visibly scuffed;


• name tag: the knife accepts a name, and there are no stickers on it;


• version: a normal knife and a StatTrak copy are sold as separate listings.

What the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate costs in Field-Tested

Factory New costs 1.61 times more, Minimal Wear costs the same, Well-Worn is 1.08 times cheaper and Battle-Scarred 1.07 times. So the three middle wears hardly diverge from one another.

The finish holds the upper part of the Covert karambit row: just four are dearer and thirteen are cheaper still. The nearest above are Case Hardened and Blue Steel, both by 13 percent. Below come Crimson Web (by 4) and Damascus Steel (by 8). The cheapest are Boreal Forest and Safari Mesh, and the dearest are Slaughter and Autotronic.

Getting the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate

A karambit with this finish falls from the Gamma Case and the Gamma 2 Case. In a trade-up neither model nor finish is chosen. Five Covert skins, all normal or all StatTrak, give a random item with the ★ mark, so the exact knife you want is taken as a listing.

Is there a StatTrak version

A version of the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate with StatTrak exists in the game.

Who this wear suits

Field-Tested is the right wear for the ★ Karambit | Black Laminate when:

• you want a knife with signs of use but without the deep scuffs of Battle-Scarred;


• your CS2 loadout is built on gray and beige, and a shiny new blade would stand out from it;


• the Factory New price looks inflated: the gap between it and this wear is considerable.