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Pocket knives and corkscrews from Sam McDowell, America's premiere scrimshaw artist, are avidly collected worldwide and his work, as carved on The McDowell Rigger Pocket Knife, called air winds and following seas, is exhibited around the globe. Owing a McDowell pocket knife such as The Queen Bee, a lady's blade means the possession of a bit of American folk art: that of bone carving. Instead of using human bones or even whale teeth, though, Sam McDowell hand carves his knife handles (and the handle on his McDowell Wine Opener) of camel bone and micarta. [more]