Sgian and Hose - Dangerous Combo?

**Tarheel** · 3rd October 14, 01:33 PM

Thinking out side the box here. If you have the nerve for "skin art", get a tattoo of your favorite sgian design. No hose problems with that after the area heals a bit.

**MacRobert's Reply** · 3rd October 14, 03:50 PM

Some sgians, especially high quality ones, are very flat, sit snugly against the leg and will not damage the hose.

**Hawk** · 3rd October 14, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Tarheel

Thinking out side the box here. If you have the nerve for "skin art", get a tattoo of your favorite sgian design. No hose problems with that after the area heals a bit.

Is that what you've done, if so let us share in the artwork....

Hawk

**cookingkilted** · 3rd October 14, 08:52 PM

Originally Posted by Tarheel

Thinking out side the box here. If you have the nerve for "skin art", get a tattoo of your favorite sgian design. No hose problems with that after the area heals a bit.

That is an awesome idea, I have been wanting another tattoo. I think instead of just the handle do the whole thing sheath and handle that way if the hose slips a bit it would still look like its in there.

**Leprechaun 91** · 3rd October 14, 09:57 PM

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Like this?

I have no such "gap" or "dent". I really think it's an issue with my most recent knife. I need a thinner scabbard.

**English Bloke** · 4th October 14, 12:51 AM

Oooh nooo... No. 92... Now there's a lovely thing!

Well knock me down... If it's not my wedding anniversary soon!!

**Tarheel** · 4th October 14, 03:00 AM

Alas good friends, I have no skin art. It is not without the access to fine talent as both my nieces and my step-daughter are all registered, and active "ink-lings". I am like IGOR in the mad scientist lab, DR. Frankenstein must bring these things to life.

**Jock Scot** · 4th October 14, 03:48 AM

Yes, they can stick out a tad at the bottom(better by far, than too much sticking out at the top). It happens, but I would not loose any sleep over it, if I were you.

**Jock Scot** · 4th October 14, 03:50 AM

Originally Posted by English Bloke

Oooh nooo... No. 92...

Well knock me down... If it's not my wedding anniversary soon!!

A subtle observation there, EB, if ever I saw one!

**OC Richard** · 5th October 14, 06:19 PM

Maybe my leg is different, but I've never had the bottom of a sgian stick out at all.

I have had a problem with the little nails in the handle of my sgian catching on threads of the hose. My solution was to remove the nails from the lower half of the handle, since I prefer having half the handle showing.

Oftentimes the problem is the scabbard/sheath rather than the sgian itself, with metal bits catching on the hose. For many years I wore my ornate sgian in a plain leather sheath which laid flatter and didn't catch on anything. The top of this sheath had flaps which came around a third of the way up the handle, helping the lower nails from catching on the hose.

In performing as a piper I usually try to remember to wear the sgian. It's a small thing, but it's something that people usually notice and comment on. It's part of the piper's "show" I think.

But not when performing at schools, which have a 'zero tolerance' policy concerning knives of any type.