Purple heart, bison horn, and brass handle with colourful steel blade.

Purple heart is an exotic wood, with a natural vibrant purple colour.  

Each Highwood Sgian Dubh comes with a handmade leather sheath, also made at our Perthshire workshop, and a Highwood display box.

When worn as part of the national dress of Scotland, the sgian-dubh is legal in Scotland, England, and Wales: in Scotland under the Criminal Law (Consolidation) (Scotland) Act 1995 sec. 49, sub-sec. 5(c)

In England and Wales under the Criminal Justice Act 1988 (sec. 139) and the Offensive Weapons Act 1996 (sec. 4).