Five-SeveN | Case Hardened (Factory New)

The Five-SeveN | Case Hardened (Factory New) is a Restricted pistol skin finished through Valve's color case-hardening process — a swirl of blue and gold that never lands the same way twice. Factory New catches that metallic mix at its most vivid, before any wear starts to mute it.

Design

The finish comes from applying wood charcoal at high temperatures, which leaves the metal marked with an unrepeatable blend of blue and gold tones. It's a Valve-made finish, and it ships with a fitting line in the game files: "A little color never hurt anyone."

Five-SeveN | Case Hardened (Factory New) Float and Wear

The finish runs the full float range from 0.00 up to 1.00, and Factory New sits right at the bottom of that scale. At this grade the case-hardened pattern shows through with maximum saturation and no surface scuffing, which matters here more than on most skins since the blue-and-gold mix is the whole appeal.

Five-SeveN | Case Hardened Rarity

Rarity: Restricted, the blue tier — one step down from Classified and a solid middle rung among the standard weapon grades. It's not the rarest pull in the game, but it's well above the base Mil-Spec tiers.

Five-SeveN | Case Hardened Case and Collection

This finish is part of The Arms Deal 2 Collection and drops from the CS:GO Weapon Case 2, which arrived with the Arms Deal 2 update in November 2013. Restricted-tier skins from that case unbox at roughly 15.98% combined, a rate shared across the whole tier rather than this finish alone.

Five-SeveN | Case Hardened Patterns

Pattern is everything on this skin — the paint seed swings the blue-to-gold ratio dramatically, so two copies at the same float can look completely different. Seed #278 is the crown jewel, a near-fully blue slide, with #690 and #868 also commanding big premiums over the ordinary yellow-heavy copies most people end up with.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak™ version exists, sourced from the CS:GO Weapon Case 2, and it tracks confirmed kills permanently once applied. There's no Souvenir version — Souvenir weapons are only ever handed out in Major-tournament packages, and this finish has never been part of one.

Five-SeveN | Case Hardened Price

Factory New sits at the top of the finish's price ladder, and premium blue-heavy patterns push well past that baseline on top of the grade itself. Within the Five-SeveN lineup this is a premium pick even before pattern is factored in. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

Which is the best Five-SeveN | Case Hardened pattern?

Seed #278 is the most celebrated, rendering a slide that's almost entirely blue rather than the usual yellow-and-gold mix, and it commands a large premium whenever one surfaces. Seeds #690 and #868 are also well-regarded blue-heavy patterns, though all three are genuinely rare on the market.

Does the paint seed actually matter on this skin?

Yes, more than on most weapons. The seed controls exactly how much blue versus gold shows on the slide, and that ratio is the whole visual identity of a case-hardened finish. A blue-dominant copy can be worth far more than an otherwise identical yellow-heavy one.

Is Factory New worth the price jump over Minimal Wear?

If you're chasing a specific blue-heavy pattern, yes — Factory New shows off the seed's true colors with zero surface interference. If pattern isn't a priority, Minimal Wear gets you nearly the same read on the finish for less, since the difference in wear at these low floats is subtle.