A POCKET-KNIFE ARTIST.
The Japanese are famed—and rightly so—for their wonderful patience and skill in carving small objects, but that a white man can meet them on their own ground is known by the achievements of Mr. Ben Clay, of Philadelphia, who is rightly termed aa “Pocket-knife Artist.” He calls his hobby “whittling,” but instead of merely turning wood into shavings he makes chains and other objects which are highly prised by his friends to whom be gives them as Christmas and birthday'presents.
In looking at some of the chains he has made, it seems impossible that they can have been made out of a single piece of wood, but such is t'he fact. One can examine the links with a magnifying glass and not find a crack or crevice where the ends qf the links have been glued together, yet the chains are as flexible .as if finished by a goldsmith or silversmith.
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Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 8
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154A POCKET-KNIFE ARTIST. Northland Age, Volume IV, Issue 50, 3 August 1908, Page 8
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