★ Bayonet | Case Hardened (Factory New)

The ★ Bayonet | Case Hardened (Factory New) is a Covert-rarity knife finish with a blue, gold, and steel patina produced by color case-hardening rather than any paint job. Factory New sits at the very top of the finish's full wear range, the grade collectors want when hunting the strongest blue coverage on a given seed.

Design

The blade's coloring comes from case-hardening the steel with wood charcoal at high temperature, which leaves an irregular blue, gold, and steel patina instead of a printed pattern. It carries the line "A little color never hurt anyone." Which seed a copy lands on decides how much of that blue shows up versus gold and steel, and the heaviest blue seeds — the "blue gem" copies — sell for a serious premium over the rest.

★ Bayonet | Case Hardened (Factory New) Float and Wear

Case Hardened spans the complete float range from 0.00 to 1.00, so all five grades exist for this finish, with Factory New anchoring the clean end. At this grade the case-hardened patina reads at its sharpest, the blue, gold, and steel zones staying distinct with none of the surface roughness that starts showing up at lower grades. On the float scale, Factory New spans 0.00–0.07.

Bayonet | Case Hardened Rarity

Rarity here is Covert ★, the gold-tier rare special classification knives carry, sitting apart from the ordinary weapon rarity ladder entirely. Landing any knife from a case is a long shot by design.

Bayonet | Case Hardened Case and Collection

Rather than coming from one release, Case Hardened is one of the original knife finishes and has dropped from a long list of cases over the years, among them the CS:GO Weapon Case and the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case. Whichever of those produces it, the rare-special pull rate for a knife sits at roughly 0.26%.

Bayonet | Case Hardened Blue Gem Patterns

Case Hardened is the blue-gem finish of the whole knife lineup, and the paint seed is the entire story — it fixes how much blue lands against the gold and steel, and copies get sorted into tiers purely on that split. Pattern #555 is the Bayonet's legendary top seed, the "true" number one with more blue than any other seed on this blade and the market's holy-grail benchmark, with #321 sitting close behind among the small handful of other seeds that qualify as genuine blue gems — only about ten do in total. That seed is locked in for the copy's whole life and never shifts with wear, so a heavy blue gem outguns an ordinary gold-and-steel copy at any grade.

StatTrak & Souvenir

A StatTrak version of this knife exists alongside the regular one, adding a permanent confirmed-kill counter that travels with it through trades and sales. There's no Souvenir edition, since knives are never included in Major-tournament souvenir packages regardless of case or seed.

Bayonet | Case Hardened Price

Factory New tops this finish's own price ladder, above the four lower grades, and Case Hardened as a whole already ranks as grail-tier among this knife's finishes. It's a serious pick within the Bayonet's lineup rather than an entry point, and a strong blue seed can push the price well past a plain one at this or any grade. It's available to buy on Skin.Land with instant delivery and no hidden fees.

FAQ

What case is the Bayonet Case Hardened in?

It's one of the original knife finishes and has dropped from a wide spread of cases rather than a single source, including the CS:GO Weapon Case and the Operation Phoenix Weapon Case. No matter which case produces it, the rare-special pull rate for a knife lands at roughly 0.26%.

What is the best Bayonet Case Hardened blue gem seed?

Pattern #555 is the Bayonet's legendary top seed — the "true" number one, carrying more blue than any other pattern on this blade and treated as the market's holy-grail benchmark. Pattern #321 ranks among the other top seeds close behind it, and only around ten seeds total qualify as genuine blue gems. The seed never changes once a copy exists.

Does the price gap make Factory New worth it over other grades?

The patina looks strongest and sharpest here, but the underlying paint seed matters just as much as grade to price — a great seed on a lower grade can still outvalue a plain seed at Factory New. This finish sits at grail-tier within the Bayonet's own lineup regardless of which grade you pick.