★ Gut Knife | Lore is a Covert knife skin where the regular branch stays expensive across every wear, while StatTrak carries a massive premium at the clean end and still holds well through the middle of the ladder. Regular Factory New asks $126.31, but even the worn regular tiers stay clustered between roughly $81 and $91, so this page trades more on branch and finish identity than on a normal wear collapse.
★ Gut Knife | Lore is a Covert knife skin where the regular branch stays expensive across every wear, while StatTrak carries a massive premium at the clean end and still holds well through the middle of the ladder. Regular Factory New asks $126.31, but even the worn regular tiers stay clustered between roughly $81 and $91, so this page trades more on branch and finish identity than on a normal wear collapse.
Gut Knife Lore is not a cheap knife page with a simple clean-versus-worn split. The regular branch holds value deep into the ladder, the StatTrak side stretches much higher at the top, and the market has been softer over the larger window even with a modest recent bounce. If you are pricing this one properly, start with branch, then wear, then ask whether the current board supports patience.
Lore carries 94% popularity and a 4.4 rating from 11100 votes, so buyer awareness is strong. The friction shows up in liquidity, which sits at Moderate 48%. This is a recognizable premium Gut Knife page, but not one where every ambitious listing clears without resistance.
Regular buyer ask is $126.31 in Factory New, $98.04 in Minimal Wear, $81.12 in Field-Tested, $88.45 in Well-Worn, and $90.50 in Battle-Scarred. Regular seller payout is $97.17, $79.98, $63.50, $68.67, and $63.03. StatTrak ask is $326.35, $153.98, $106.55, $129.00, and $117.34, with payout at $228.79, $110.27, $78.51, $95.67, and $94.67.
Regular Factory New is still the top tier at $126.31 ask and $97.17 payout, but what stands out is how little the regular branch falls afterward. Minimal Wear at $98.04 and even Battle-Scarred at $90.50 keep this page far firmer than a normal knife wear ladder.
The regular branch does not step down smoothly. Field-Tested asks $81.12, then Well-Worn rises to $88.45 and Battle-Scarred reaches $90.50. That shape matters because anyone assuming a standard straight wear decline will misread both buying opportunities and realistic resale targets on this page.
Base float runs from 0.00 to 0.65, with Factory New to 0.07, Minimal Wear to 0.15, Field-Tested to 0.38, and Well-Worn to 0.45. There is enough float room here for genuine condition separation, even if the regular market does not price those tiers in a normal descending order.
StatTrak is available and Souvenir is not, so the page splits into two practical markets. That split matters a lot on Lore. The StatTrak side is not a small add-on - it creates a much more expensive top end and a second set of comps that cannot be mixed with regular.
Factory New StatTrak asks $326.35 against $126.31 regular and pays $228.79 against $97.17, which is a huge gap. Minimal Wear StatTrak also stays far above regular at $153.98 ask versus $98.04. The counter premium remains meaningful across the board, but it is most dramatic in the cleaner wears.
This is a Custom Paint Job knife finish, and the pricing shows buyers are paying for the finish identity itself, not just for spotless condition. Lore keeps value even in worn regular tiers, which tells you the page is being bought for its look and name more than for a pristine-only presentation.
Pattern Variants are marked No, so there is no seed-driven pricing layer hiding behind the live board. That is helpful because the branch and wear behavior is already unusual enough. Two copies in the same branch and wear should be judged on market level and condition only.
The 30-day move is up 4.30%, which is not a breakout, but it does show recent trading has leaned firmer rather than weaker. On a moderate-liquidity knife page, even a small positive month can help support asks that would have struggled if the board were still sliding.
One-year change sits at -50.58%, so the broader trend is still sharply down despite the recent bounce. That matters because sellers cannot treat the current month as a full recovery. The long view says this market has already repriced meaningfully lower from its older levels.
All-time high is $462.00 and all-time low is $112.00. That is a substantial spread for a Gut Knife skin and a reminder that the page has traded through very different demand conditions. Current prices sit closer to the middle than the peak, which keeps both buyers and sellers cautious.
There is no listed collection or case framing doing the explanatory work here. Lore stands on its own as a known knife finish with a strong identity. In practice, buyers focus on the live wear ladder, the StatTrak spread, and the overall knife market mood rather than on source context.
Rickeh, NEO, and LUCAS1 are linked with the skin, which helps maintain familiarity when buyers scan older premium knife finishes. That does not set the market by itself, but it supports recall. Familiar skins usually keep rotating more easily than equally priced pages nobody remembers.
Finish catalog 560, creator Valve, model version CS2, and a base float span of 0.00 to 0.65 are the key identifiers here. There is no Souvenir branch and no pattern premium. The technical read is clean, which is useful because the live branch and wear behavior is already doing enough work.
