Quote Originally Posted by HootinHoller View Post
Oh, and sure bring up the physics of the issue, but you're right about the center of gravity.
{grin}

My most-often worn sgian is a version of "Tourist Special" that one could often find in Scotland in the mid-'70s to mid-'80s. Which is to say I didn't buy one when I was there in '77, but that a friend of mine bought it for me when he visited in about '82. I keep it and wear it in his memory, as he lived an unhappy and ultimately short life after leaving the Navy. Because it has no clan badge I tend to wear it stuck down a bit, with just the glass "jewel" and a bit of the handle showing.

("...the Scot would adorn his sgian dubh with cairngorm stones of small value..." as it says in the literature in the original box...)

My other sgian is a full-tang spear-point with scale handles and filework that I made in 1990. It's a heavy beast so I don't carry it often.

The other option is to acquire some variety of "sgian don't" and wear that. Having the "sgian brew" or the "sgian shoe" could ultimately be more useful than a little knife with your clan badge on it, anyway. (Hence the popularity of the "Officer's Model" sgian with screwdriver, bottle opener and corkscrew -- which always seemed ungainly to me but I'll defer to the opinion of the man who has one.)