this DAD ice sculpture is a long one, so you’ll need a long display tray.
kinda like my first ice sculpture
Last updated 6/9/23, mostly with formatting and seo. Father’s Day is coming! This post was on the original site.
This DAD ice sculpture design is very similar to the first ice carving that I ever did. I was working at the Radisson Airport Hotel in Albuquerque, NM during summers off from college. I used to go and watch the sous chef, Victor Rede carve the ice sculptures for Sunday brunch. He was about to start the Father’s Day carvings and I showed up to watch. He handed me the chainsaw and said: “Why don’t you YOU carve it?” After that, he kept teaching me until I could handle things on my own.
I ended up finishing college and got degrees in biology and chemistry, but I didn’t really use them. Years later (decades actually), here we are. Anyone who’d like to share how they got started in ice carving, just add it to the comment section below. And Happy Father’s Day to my dad, stepdad, and all the other dads out there.
if you tackle this DAD ice sculpture, make sure you keep your cuts straight. I did NOT when I first tried this sculpture. Fortunately I got better at that later.
comment from my old DAD ice sculpture post
An earlier comment from Darren (preserved from an earlier version of the site):
I started out carving apple birds an watermelon baskets then my aunt started dating a chef that carved ice . I watched him carve a swan then on my next day off I bought a block for TWENTY FIVE dollars an borrowed my grandpas tree pruning saw an rigged a broom handle stick onto the broken five point chipper he gave me an started practicing . an Ive been hooked ever since. I also feel I should mention it was my father who arranged for me to go watch this chef carve ice.
comment from Friday, June 15, 2007
boring details to annoy you
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