Quote Originally Posted by Brasilikilt
Hey all

Here's a couple knives which I have been using as my sgian dubh



This is an old Kinsfolks blade made probably sometime in the late 50's early 60's. The blade has lost a lot of metal from being used and sharpened so much. The blade is the perfect thickness, handy size, keeps a keen edge and has held it's own and on occasion has outperformed knives costing 10 times as much.
If you ask me, if a knife is on the small side, has a black handle and lives in your sock while wearing your kilt......it's a sgian dubh!

Dread.....you asked about if Mora makes a wee knife
I have worn this in my sock while kilted even though the handle is a little too round and fat to be very comfortable, wood can always be reshaped with the right tools I guess you can refer to it as my Scandinavian Sgian Dubh:-)



I bought this one as well as a French Opinel folding knife from this website:
http://www.ragweedforge.com/SwedishKnifeCatalog.html

Ranald.........
I've been collecting bits of deer antlers from the local taxidermist recently just for that purpose.
The blades from Atlanta Cutlery are supposed to be of pretty decent quality

http://www.atlantacutlery.com/websto...archPosition=9

Many moons ago I mentioned something to the admin about posting a tutorial, now that I have a digital camera and a wild hair in my ****, I might just take that project on!
Allow me to be the first to say that you have good taste in blades.

I love Moras. Own several. Never yet seen one small enough for a Black Knife. The one you posted is awfully close.

I think my worst problem with a wee knife would be how freakishly large my hands are... It would be so tiny in my mitts. I mean, I wear a size 15 ring. And everything looks so small and dainty in my hands. (You can see me dwarfing a 1 pint salsa bowl on my website) If I ever got a knife scaled to fit my hands, it would be to big for my sock. Any knife that would fit in my sock would look like the little pewter knife that came in the Clue game in my hands. And even Hamish has stated that proportion is important with kilt wearing, and for once, I agree wholeheartedly with him.

This is why I asked if it were acceptable to carry something else in your sock, like a blackjack. Nothing that I would wear would look right if it had to be pulled out.