Sgian dhu II

[Bob C]

I got a new sgian dubh from Matt Newsome's Scottish Tartans Museum gift shop today. It's a day knife and it looks great.

It's not one of those mortgage-your-house blades that some of you insist on, but the blade is good and the handle will look good sticking out of my sock.

[David Thornton]

I hope our historian types are still looking at this one. What defines a sgian dubh? Shape of the blade? Shape of the handle? Size?
I havent found a satisfactory answer.
I have found several guys in the US making absolutly gorgeous boot knives and daggers that look amazingly like sgians.
Thanks again
David

[KiltedKnight]

I have a lot of different types of knives that I call a collection and the sgian dubhs that I got from http://www.scotyard.com/shopping/browse.php?cat=37 are all I ever needed, I have a number of sgian dubhs but 'A' and 'D' look great and are all I really ever wear and the prices aren't that bad. they don't have the Damascus steel of course but the blades here still hold a good edge. Sally at The Scotland Yard is a wonderful lady to work with.

Chris.