★ Bayonet | Blue Steel (Minimal Wear)

The ★ Bayonet | Blue Steel (Minimal Wear, MW) carries the same cold-blued steel treatment as the rest
of the finish, one grade down from the cleanest copies. It still keeps that dark blue-gray tone
looking largely even.

Design

There's no paint on Blue Steel — the look comes purely from cold bluing the blade itself, giving it
a deep, gunmetal-leaning blue-gray surface. The flavor text "This is the malbec of weapon design" ships
with every copy of this finish, hinting at its low-key, refined character.

★ Bayonet | Blue Steel (Minimal Wear) Float and Wear

With Blue Steel spanning the full 0.00–1.00 float range, Minimal Wear sits a short step above the
cleanest end, still showing a fairly uniform blued surface with only slight signs of the wear to come.
Because this finish uses the entire range, later grades will show a much more dramatic shift than what
you see here. In float terms, this grade runs 0.07–0.15.

Bayonet | Blue Steel Rarity

This is still Covert ★, the rare special ("knife") tier that outranks any ordinary weapon grade
pulled from a case. Rarity is a function of the item slot, not of which wear a particular copy lands
on.

Bayonet | Blue Steel Case and Collection

Rather than belonging to one collection, Blue Steel is among the original knife finishes and drops
from a wide spread of cases, with the CS:GO Weapon Case and the Revolver Case among the better-known
sources. Across the board, the rare-special tier lands at roughly 0.26% per case, so most copies of
this finish change hands on the market.

Bayonet | Blue Steel Patterns

Like every wear of this finish, the cold-blued look is fixed — the paint-seed index plays no role
in how the surface appears, so there's nothing pattern-related to hunt. Minimal Wear looks the way it
does purely because of float, not because of any seed variation.

StatTrak & Souvenir

This finish is also available as a StatTrak™ edition, permanently tracking confirmed kills through
every trade or sale. It has no Souvenir counterpart, since knives simply don't appear in
Major-tournament souvenir packages.

Bayonet | Blue Steel Price

Minimal Wear sits just below Factory New (FN) on the Blue Steel's price ladder, offering a slightly
cheaper way into the same cold-blued look while the finish overall still holds mid-tier standing
among this knife's skins. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

How does Minimal Wear compare to Factory New on the Blue Steel?

The difference is subtle at this stage — Minimal Wear still shows a mostly even blued surface, with
only slight hints of the wear that becomes obvious at higher floats. Since Blue Steel spans the full
0.00–1.00 range, the real visual gap opens up much further down the ladder.

How do I get a Bayonet Blue Steel?

It comes from a wide range of cases going back to the CS:GO Weapon Case, with the rare-special
("knife") tier pulling at around 0.26% per opening across all of them. Given those odds, buying it
directly on the market is usually faster and cheaper than case-hunting.

Is Minimal Wear worth it over Factory New on the Blue Steel?

For most buyers, yes — the visual difference is minor this early in the float range, so Minimal
Wear delivers nearly the same look for a smaller price than Factory New. It's a sensible middle
ground if a near-mint surface isn't a strict requirement.