Interesting comments there bigdad1, the police in the uk have a zero tolerance policy to knives and Scotlands police are very strict.With good reason to be fair. You have to have a very good reason indeed to be carrying a knife. It would certainly be very unwise of me to forget to take my deer stalking knife, including the sheath, off when going to the shops to buy half a dozen eggs! However wearing the kilt and carrying a sgian dubh shopping, going to church, visiting hospital,even going to a police station will get no reaction at all.