This 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 and I used to go and watch 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 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. Eighteen years later, 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 and all the other dads out there.

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The following comment was on the original blog entry. After some technical difficulties, the blog had to be reconstructed, and this was the only way to keep the original comments.

Darren

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

Friday, June 15, 2007 - 04:24 PM