Maybe my leg is different, but I've never had the bottom of a sgian stick out at all.
I have had a problem with the little nails in the handle of my sgian catching on threads of the hose. My solution was to remove the nails from the lower half of the handle, since I prefer having half the handle showing.
Oftentimes the problem is the scabbard/sheath rather than the sgian itself, with metal bits catching on the hose. For many years I wore my ornate sgian in a plain leather sheath which laid flatter and didn't catch on anything. The top of this sheath had flaps which came around a third of the way up the handle, helping the lower nails from catching on the hose.
In performing as a piper I usually try to remember to wear the sgian. It's a small thing, but it's something that people usually notice and comment on. It's part of the piper's "show" I think.
But not when performing at schools, which have a 'zero tolerance' policy concerning knives of any type.
Proud Mountaineer from the Highlands of West Virginia; son of the Revolution and Civil War; first Europeans on the Guyandotte
Originally Posted by English Bloke
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