Quote Originally Posted by beloitpiper View Post
As one of the younger members of the forum (20 y.o.) I have not had a problem as long as it stayed in my kilt hose. That's the key. Don't even take it out to show people what it is.

People frequently ask me "Is that a knife in your sock?" and I reply, "It's a sgian dubh". And they just say "Oh..." and forget about it.

I don't unsheath the sgian dubh, and it has never caused me problems.
Good advice, that you'll see in the debates in my earlier post.
I was raised with the skean dhu almost as a holy knife, like a kukri, and you can't unsheath it without drawing blood. I'm not advocating that, but the respect behind the teaching is worth keeping in mind. It's not a toy.