Blue and gold run over the steel in the mottling that case hardening leaves behind, with the gold gathering near the edge and the hook. That hook on the spine is what a gut knife is built around: it opens a hide along the belly.

The view model holds 36,086 polygons against the stock knife’s 1,040, the heaviest of these ten, on 38 bones. It uses four textures: a 512×512 sleeve, a 512×512 glove, the blade map and a 64×64 chrome map that gives the metal its mirrored sheen in GoldSrc. The idle runs 149 frames with an inspect in it. The third-person model comes at 12,004 polygons against the stock 112, and there is no dropped-knife model, so on the ground it stays standard.