I suspect that regional difference may be significant in the amount of interest shown. When I am out and about in the very metropolitan, very chic Washington DC area, where almost no one wears a belt knife, I get lots of questions. "Oh, is your sock knife real?" "Can I see it?" etc. Out in Western Maryland/Pennsylvania, much more rural, farming and hunting area, the only comment I remember getting, is when I wore a different sgian the second time I went to the same restaurant on one trip. The owner collects knives, and seeing I had more than one with me, correctly assumed I did also, and struck up a conversation. Otherwise it seems to be, "So he's wearing a knife. Isn't everybody?"

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Does it? I've never, ever had any attention paid to my sgian dubh by the public. Never a question about it, not even a glance at it (that I could sense, at least). It's almost disappointing, as I actually wish someone would ask about it so I could show them the nice Damascus blade and talk about it.

Maybe it's just a regional thing, as there are a lot of men who walk around here with knife sheaths on their belts. Nobody seems to notice or care.