About ★ M9 Bayonet | Tiger Tooth
The ★ M9 Bayonet | Tiger Tooth in Factory New is the gold-finish anchor of the M9 lineup — a sharp, near-yellow chrome layer with the Tiger Tooth striping rendered as a tight high-contrast pattern across the blade. From the Chroma Case (January 2015), it remains one of the most recognisable knife finishes precisely because the colour and the pattern density don't depend on float to read.
Why Tiger Tooth scales on M9
The M9 Bayonet has a long, broad blade — more surface than Karambit or Bayonet — and Tiger Tooth's pattern shows best on exactly that kind of canvas. The stripes don't bunch the way they do on smaller blades, and the gold reflectivity reads on dark map backgrounds (Inferno, Train) without losing definition. Among the Chroma Case knives, this is the cleanest skin/model match.
Why FN matters
Tiger Tooth is one of the finishes where Factory New genuinely looks different from MW. The chrome layer holds its mirror quality only at low float; any wear pulls it toward a duller yellow-brass. FN copies preserve the sharp pattern contrast that defines the look, and Steam Market data shows the FN/MW gap has widened over the past two years as supply of clean copies thinned. Buyers paying FN money expect the chrome.
