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lemmythesmith · 8th November 2007, 10:12 PM

Hi David, my sghian dubh is about 7" overall, total weight about 2 ounces for that lightweight, won't drag your sock down feel

I've read somewhere that ivy root was apparently also used for ballock knife hilts.

Another possible origin of the sghian dubh is that after the '45 the Scots were disarmed by the English, and highlanders being highlanders ("they spend all their time in war and when there are no wars they fight one another") wanted to be armed so a small utility knife was carried, as Alan said, under the armpit or oxter-this knife evolved into the sghian dubh we know today.

8th November 2007, 10:12 PM	#21
lemmythesmith Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 93	Hi David, my sghian dubh is about 7" overall, total weight about 2 ounces for that lightweight, won't drag your sock down feel I've read somewhere that ivy root was apparently also used for ballock knife hilts. Another possible origin of the sghian dubh is that after the '45 the Scots were disarmed by the English, and highlanders being highlanders ("they spend all their time in war and when there are no wars they fight one another") wanted to be armed so a small utility knife was carried, as Alan said, under the armpit or oxter-this knife evolved into the sghian dubh we know today.