K, SOMETIMES ice sculptors don’t know what to call ice things that we make. Names matter, since people will be googling, looking for your ice thing(s). This is now a “monogram champagne ice display” which is basically a big chunk of ice with holes for bottles, cute details, and a monogram.
updated 7/5/23 with some seo stuff and possibly confusing additions. Sorry!
going with "monogram champagne ice display"
This ice sculpture design was used recently (sorry, not recently) at a wedding in Oxford, MS. They just wanted an ice piece to front the champagne station. The bubbles on the center column were carved into the front and the back of the ice using both bubble bits to create raised bubbles and end mills and burr bits to make indented bubbles.
The different bubble depths work together to fool the eye some; the bubbles look like they’re inside the block, as long as they last. Larger bubbles go towards the top, as I’m pretty sure (but not totally positive 😬) the bubbles would be expanding as they moved toward the lower pressures near the top of the champagne.
The sculpture requires a full block and it’s easiest to cut the holes (which should be matched to the bottle diameters) with a hole cutting bit set in a drill. (Look for an entry about these useful bits in the future. I have one, but I need to fix it or get another.)
You could expand the piece by using the method below, making the most of your available ice. Conceivably, you could even get the monogram slab out of the same block, if you were willing to sacrifice the height of the columns a bit.
you can make your monogram champagne ice display even bigger by using as much ice as possible. In all honesty though, these would be some tough cuts. Sometimes I’m a little overconfident about my chainsaw cutting skills.
Here is one way you could lay out the larger display.
It wouldn’t be difficult to adapt this monogram champagne ice display to be used with almost any sort of bottle. (It would have to be a really freaky bottle to not work SOMEHOW.) Perhaps the hole diameters would need to be changed and you’d likely want to change the bubble design on the center column to something more appropriate, like some scrollwork or even a logo.
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