Wearing a basket hilt.?.

[Bugbear]

A question on the functionality of the sgian dubh.

In the US as recent as my Dad's generation it was common for everyone to carry a small knife for everyday use. Even to school. I even work with people who feel undressed for not carrying a small folding knife or a buck on their hip. Work in Coorporate America...

Was this the case in Scotland? I would think that the design of the sgian lends itself to a EDC (everyday carry in knife speak).

Jim

Everyone did when I was growing up, too, though not so welcome in school. It jogged my memory of some people carrying knives in their tall boots while working out in the fields and so on, but they were a little bigger than a sgian.

I never had a sgian in my brief kilted time, but I did always have a pocket knife in my sporran or as a fob on my pocket watch.

Sorry, just having old memories; I don't belong in this thread.