I appreciate the input but I really didn't want to start another thread about carrying a sghian...I was genuinely curious about why makers don't take what I have observed is a legal limit in many localities into consideration when designing the knives in the first place.

The thought came to mind when I was looking at the Atlanta Cutlery blades and noted that they were 3 1/4" long and thought, "oh well...I'll just bury the extra 1/4" in the bolster or the handle and it'll be technically street legal for Chicago should the issue come up".*

And attitude test or not let's not forget that legal is legal and let's also not forget that not all law enforcement officers are as fair minded as you all might be. Chicago...remember? Lots of things, legal or not, have gotten "confiscated" in my experience and they don't end up in a box at the district station. I wouldn't wear a sghian anywhere around this city for several reasons but if I was heading to an event, I'd tuck one in the hosetop when I got there. If all of the sghian dhub lore that we kick around here is true then the little sucker really didn't spend all of its time stuck in a sock in plain sight anyway. Plenty of room under the kilt and it doesn't seem like too may people are going to go looking around in there without probable cause.

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AA

*Stuff like this comes up when my brother-in-law, who has been retired from the force for the past five years, shows up and starts pontificating about all of the stuff that "I coulda arrested you for that". To which my usual response is, "Well, it's really a good thing that you're retired now and don't have to worry about things like that, isn't it?"