"A kilt? You pansy!"

[BroosterB1]

I think it'd be odder if someone showed up carrying the full panoply of lethal steel we hear in tradition: sgian, dirk, three dags, basket-hilt broadsword, claymore, Lochaber axe, and spiked targe.

You've not yet seen McMurdo's playthings....guys around here like pointy sharp things...Look at Jamie's wall of destructuon.....

[Bugbear]

I just about fell over laughing when I read that!

And Ted... You are one strange fellow- which is why we like you.

So- onto the knife- I do know that a lot of people see them as nothing but another style of cufflink (figuratively), but I got this style because the blade is thick and strong. I fully intend to use it to gut fish. So it needed an edge.

Thank you, Nighthawk, I am honored.

[Dan R Porter]

As an old cowboy once told me; The three most useless items in the world are teats on a boar, a gun without bullets and a dull knife. I don't care if its a part of the wardrobe, all my sgains have an edge, and one I can use.

And yes Hawk, you are a pansy...a great big, martial arts, kilt wearing, long haired, bass playing, head banging flower of a guy. How else you gonna explain that saffron kilt with the purple hose? And thats why we like you...even jumping into pools of mustard

Saffron and purple? Wouldn't that make a "Johnny-jump-up" cultivar?

[Nighthawk]

Saffron and purple? Wouldn't that make a "Johnny-jump-up" cultivar?

Perhaps. But you know what? I like it! So those who don't can... Well, get over it! Is a cultivar a flower, though? I've never been quite sure... and I would have never made that association!

Ya, if it's trout you don't need to worry. Not that I like fish, but I spent a lot of time fishing with Grampa when I was a kid.

Anything that swims has a natural predator in me. I love seafood. I have a great campfire trout recipe. It works as well for trout with baked potatoes at dinner time as it does with eggs and toast for breakfast.

[wyldathart]

The new sgian is pretty. I always keep an edge on mine. No reason to wear it if it isn't sharp.

My sentiments exactly. Mine will have a nice keen edge on it, as do all my other blades.

[Bugbear]

In some other thread I said this, too. I can not stand it when a restaurant only has those dull edged table knives that are good for cutting butter and not much else. I used to carry a short but very good steak knife with me all the time. Not that you would use your sgain dubh to cut your New York strip, but still...

[McFarkus]

My sgian came with a razor sharp edge. Of course, the blade is damascus steel forged from a used Harley-Davidson chain.

[Mr. bone]

My sgian came with a razor sharp edge. Of course, the blade is damascus steel forged from a used Harley-Davidson chain.

...that is nothing short of bitchin' cool!

[Tribal]

On the other hand, it may be good to have one "decorative" knife. I go to Britain from time to time and I'm pretty sure they'd take a very dim view of a sharpened sgian dubh; the same goes for some areas of the U.S. as well.

Besides, a Kershaw Ken Onion Leek clipped IWB is very nice if you actually need to cut something (other than, inevitably in my case, my leg or my hose trying to re-sheath the sgian!).

[Bugbear]

Ehh, there's some sea food I like, and a couple of fish, but what can you do. Good luck with you're fishing, Hawk, um... and save some worms for your children.