Sgian scabbard

**MacMillan of Rathdown** · 11th May 11, 07:24 PM

Probably the best way to not loose your sgian dubh is to stuff it in your sporran. In the course of normal activity I've never lost my sgian dubh, but then only the top 3/4" inch is sticking out above my sock.

**Mark E.** · 11th May 11, 08:46 PM

"Go stuff my badger"-Love it!

Beats another suggestion I recieved earlier, which was to get a longer sgian blade...I said I only had a 16" leg below the knee, I couldn't do much more than a 12" blade...

Kidding, kidding. I wouldn't have a sgian that was bigger than a lot of fellow's main dirks out there...

**Dale Seago** · 11th May 11, 09:12 PM

Before the early-to-mid-1800s you wouldn't have had a sgian in your stocking: It would have (with a wee longer blade) been a "backup" in the armpit of your jacket.

Second point: If it's in your stocking and you don't want to lose it, don't go to the ground. Easier said than done, I know, as a martial artist who for 27 years has delighted in going to the ground. . .

**Mark E.** · 11th May 11, 09:24 PM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Before the early-to-mid-1800s you wouldn't have had a sgian in your stocking: It would have (with a wee longer blade) been a "backup" in the armpit of your jacket.

Second point: If it's in your stocking and you don't want to lose it, don't go to the ground. Easier said than done, I know, as a martial artist who for 27 years has delighted in going to the ground. . .

Sgian achlais, quite familier with them. Hence my using only the "sgian" term here-didn't want to misrepresent any established understood nomenclature. I guess the assumption was that it was dubh, though there was not a spot of black on it...

Happenstance, wasn't wearing a jacket, so no hiding spot...stocking was the alternative. The ground I went to was due to gettting clipped in the leg-and played it out as though it were a wounding that would have put me there. Not fun using a basket hilt from below, with an enemy above...disconcerting for them as well.