Does Anyone Else Think This is a Bad Idea?

[ChazzC]

Was pursuing Amazon for a “Plastic Icepick” (we don’t use a lot of ice, so the ice maker tub sometimes requires breaking cubes loose and since I’m out of shop action I thought I’d see if they had a solution):


I’m pretty sure that the “Safety Wooden Handle” isn’t going to help much when the SS shaft goes through the palm of the left hand (other than acting as a stop).

 

[Weldingrod1]

Not -quite- dangerous enough for a Darwin Award!

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[silence dogood]

It doesn't matter what the ice pick is made of. Holding that chuck of ice in your left hand is a premedical procedure before going to EM. That's as bad as holding a piece of metal to be drilled in a drill press.

 

[markba633csi]

Obviously the picture is illustrating the procedure for making an ice sculpture and giving blood at the same time

 

[coolidge]

Meh, that's what the aluminum meat hammer is for.

 

[higgite]

The user is perfectly safe. It's an ice pick, not a hand pick.

Tom

 

[savarin]

I guess I'm just showing off now but this talk of ice picks reminded me of the ice carvings I have done in the past.
Lots of these for weddings

this one was for the year of the lion for a local chinese restaurant

this one was for a Southern States Food Festival

A local fishmonger would store the ice and take orders for no charge and I would carve them in his window which would attract customers,, a win win situation.
For tools I would use ice picks, multi point ice picks (ice comb) and very very sharp wood chisels. I never used a chain saw though.