sgian dubh question

[Raphael]

How many of you actually use your sgain dubh on a regular basis?

[Standard]

Still waiting for mine to get here. However, a pocket knife I use on a daily basis so I definately wanted a quality blade and not just a show piece for my sgain dubh. I don't imagine that I'll use it as much in the evening time dining, etc., but day wear wise I can see it being used for utilitarian purposes often.

[Ryan Ross]

Regardless of what knife I'm carrying, I tend to need to use it at least once a day. Now that I have a sgian dubh with a quality blade, I certainly do use it on a daily basis.

[McMurdo]

I use the one Casey just gave me for cutting apples and such, I'm not sure why I cut apples and not bite into them, perhaps it is because my father eats his apples that way.

[JS Sanders]

Like a cherished pocketknife, uses for a sgian are just as endless.

I’ve used mine to trim post-prandial cigars, adjust recalcitrant chanter reeds, and as replacement steak knives at wedding reception dinners.

A sgian should do more than simply look good tucked into a sock.

Slainte yall,
steve

[Panache]

It seems like when I most need a blade is when I am dressed casually with scrunched down hose (and therefore no sgian dubh) so I use my little lockback magnum pocket knife or my leatherman knock off depending on which I am carrying. I find that my trusty "sgian don't" bottle cap opener gets a lot of use at BBQs and parties.

...and as replacement steak knives at wedding reception dinners...

I feel better now. I thought I was the only one who had used his sgian dubh on a steak for want of a proper steak knife!

Cheers

Jamie

[Streetcar]

I use the one Casey just gave me for cutting apples and such, I'm not sure why I cut apples and not bite into them, perhaps it is because my father eats his apples that way.

I cut my apples before I eat them because I'd rather find a worm that way, than by biting into it.

When I'm carrying my sgian in my hose, it's my general purpose "go-to" knife. If I'm not wearing hose, I carry a Cold Steel Recon folder tucked inside my waistband.


At work, I carry my sgian around my neck (under my shirt) as a last ditch negotiation tool.

[JRB]

I carry a folding knife fairly often when wearing pants/shorts. However, I haven't worn any of my skian dubhs much lately. Once in a while I'll wear one but more often than not I leave it home. I've found that I almost never use/need it and I am definitely not the type of person to wear something just for jewelery sake.

[Howard Clark]

The knife I really use all the time goes in my sock when I am casually dressed, and I find endless uses for it. But then I work at home, and wear a kilt near full time now. If I am dressed up, then I use a nicer knife in my sock, and it gets used somewhat less, mostly because there is less occasion to do so in situations when I am dressed up. I feel naked without a knife. I would not consider going without one unless is was dictated by law somehow, and even then it would be iffy for me to abide by that. If I am going to be somewhere that a sgian dubh is really gonna be a problem, I will carry a folder somewhere else. But I am NEVER without a knife handy somewhere, of some kind. Sometimes more than one.

[irishrob]

Ever since I saw Stan the Piper from Glasgow with a "sgain" in each sock, I carry a knife in one and a "Sgain Don't" bottle opener in the other. Both have seen quite a bit of practical use.

Rob