About ★ Gut Knife | Case Hardened
The ★ Gut Knife | Case Hardened in Factory New is the cleanest pattern-research surface for the cheapest knife model in CS2. The Gut Knife — small fixed cleaver-style blade from the launch knife collection (2013) — costs less per unit than any other knife model, which means Factory New Case Hardened copies are within reach for traders priced out of premium-knife pattern hunting.
FN as the verification standard
FN floats below 0.07 keep the boundary between blue and yellow oxidation zones knife-edge sharp. For Tier-1 blue gem verification this is the gold standard — every authoritative blue-gem listing on Buff163 or csfloat is shot at FN-equivalent float for exactly this reason.
The blue gem ladder on Gut
Confirmed Tier-1 Gut blue gems trade at 5-8× the base FN price. Tier-2 (60-80% blue play face) at 1.5-2.5×. Tier-3 (clearly blue-dominant but with notable yellow) at 1.2-1.5×. Below that, you're at the base price level shown on this page.
