Sgian dubh on the inside

[MacMillan of Rathdown]

First, many early sgian dubhs are fitted with antler or horn handles. Secondly, the skinning and butchering of wild game after the successful hunt was usually undertaken by the upper-class hunter's ghillie, literally "boy" in Gaelic, as in serving boy. The huntsman would not stoop to such work. It may have been a hangover of this attitude that had officers in the military regiments resist the carrying of sgian dubhs, as they were initially considered fit only for "ghillies and serving rascals."

this is from an article by Joe D. Huddleston

a reference to being an example existing also refers to no examples exist of the arm pit knife.

Where may one obtain copy of Mr. Huddleston's article?

[Highland Logan]

Where may one obtain copy of Mr. Huddleston's article?

MoR here's a link to Joe D. Huddleston. And just an observation. I noticed a few people refering to the "on the inside of the leg" as a "myth". It seems that only the origional poster and the person who told them are the only two to have ever heard of this before. So it would seem more as disinformation, rather than myth.

Frank

[Pleater]

That might explain why I used to get quite a few tips (money, that is) for skinning rabbits for the guns.

It was such easy work that I was puzzled by their reluctance to do it themselves.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

[Urchurdan]

i had a seal look at me funny he swung first but i think i might have provoked it when i called his mother an overgrown sporran and told her to hold my keys

[davedove]

Okay, here's the real story. It does not mean you're looking for a fight if you wear the knife on the inside of the leg. However, you are more likely to start a fight, because you're more irritable from the discomfort of the handle rubbing against the other leg.

[Urchurdan]

That might explain why I used to get quite a few tips (money, that is) for skinning rabbits for the guns.

It was such easy work that I was puzzled by their reluctance to do it themselves.

Anne the Pleater :ootd:

And of course dear girl, that is why I would never sully either side of a leg with such a common implement..Sniff...Is it the ghillies who skin the Game?? Good on them, must remember to give the blighters a small gratuity at the next shoot, what.....

LoL......

[herminator]

Well, they have accepted my info that sgian dubhs are carried on the outer side!

But it is also a result of The Power Of The Kilt (TM)
On a forum for "christian housewives" they discussed me and my kilt for over 100 posts, then I was invited to join - we have now reached over 200!! Amazing and flattering!

[SteveB]

MoR, you may have noticed that I also said it is not a problem in the U.K., where the shifter is to the left of the operator. I have owned a right hand drive lorry on this side of the puddle. it was a "retired" postal delivery truck - the right hand drive makes it easier to reach rural mailboxes. This vehicle was a great bit of fun when passing through toll booths with my Saint Bernard in the passenger seat. Gave many toll collectors a double take. It would also mess with the minds of other drivers who thought the Saint Bernard was driving!

[duchessofnc]

My uncle had a large dog that he got a blond wig for. He likes to play pranks and when he put the wig on the dog, if you just looked at the dog from a distance it looked like a woman sitting up in his truck. You had to get closer to realize that it was the dog.

So he would go to places that knew him and have people look at his new hot woman (he's married to my Aunt by blood) and at one place they jumped all over him about how he should be careful because my aunt was going to make him pay dearly for it. We're feisty in my family.

So he invited them come to the truck where they realized that it was the dog with the wig. His dog loved him and rode on a regular basis in his truck. Every once in a while someone would report to my Aunt about the blonde woman they saw from a distance riding in his truck and she'd just roll her eyes.

[sathor]

I had a cop friend explain it like this to me about 10 years back:

"Wear those daggers on the outside leg, not the inside. I have to be able to see if from 3 directions, otherwise it counts as 'concealed.' On the outside, it can be seen from one side, as well as front and back. On the inside, it is hidden from the sides either by the other leg or the leg it is on."

That was a decade before kilts for me, not for a lack of wanting one though, but perhaps that logic applied to a Sgian gives that result?