Are you complete without a Sgian Dubh?

[Jack Daw]

99% of the time I wear kilt hose with my kilt, so I can easily accommodate the sgian dhu. I don't think of it as a weapon, but as a tool, like a pocket knife. It always comes in handy at the Highland games that I attend. I'm unconfirmed on the history, other than to pass on what I've read elsewhere - that before the military standardized tucking the "black knife" in the kilt hose, it was kept under the armpit/ochter.

BTW, on Tuesday evening, I was at a fund-raiser for the Houston Highland Games Association. Those without sgian dhus had to do without an eating utensil other than a plastic spoon.