Modern Sgian Dubhs

[motorman4life]

I think I recall seeing a post here about a well-known knife company making a modern or "tactical" sgian dubh. I did a search and could not find it. Anyone know what I'm talking about here?

[Bil]

Cold Steel. http://www.coldsteel.com/60ce.html

Cold Steel make great knives. They are one of the only tacticals I recommend to my clients. Price tag is high but you get what you pay for.

In case you want to referrence whether on not I know what I'm talking about:
http://www.counterstriketactics.com/home.htm

[Sciuropterus]

Cool stuff, Bil.
I have been doing martial arts since 1981, Did TKD all thru high school and dabbled in Aikido & Kenpo along the way.

I trained in Kali/Silat/JKD over several years at MN Kali Group, also racked up a lot of seminar hours with Inosanto/Vunak/Hartsell/etc. That was where I first saw a sarong used as a weapon.

I will be taking in a Bill McGrath stick & knife seminar (Filipino Pekiti Tersia style) this fall.

I have been doing Kosen Ju-Jitsu for the last 7 years, we do lots of law enforcement training at our school, lots of fun. We had a prison guard there who was a bagpiper.

[Archangel]

You might have been thinking of the earlier Culloden model which Cold Steel offered. I liked it a lot but the fit up of the handle seemed cheap and sloppy so I never bought one. I kept waiting for them to improve on it but theydiscontinued it and offered the folder Bil refers to.
I'm sort of hoping with the discussions here that they will reconsider.

[Freedomlover]

Wow. At $350.00 U.S. there is no chance I'll ever own one of those. Maybe it's just me, but that price seems far out of line even considering the titanium parts.

[Archangel]

Wow. At $350.00 U.S. there is no chance I'll ever own one of those. Maybe it's just me, but that price seems far out of line even considering the titanium parts.

you know, I never even looked at the price before, it wasn't what I wanted. That's an outrageous price for a factory knife. I couldn't justify that.

Their previous model, the fixed blade, skean dhu, Culloden, was less than $US50 if I remember correctly. I thought that was pushing it.