Renaissance Medieval Forged Ice Pick

An ice pick is a tool used to break up, pick at, or chip at ice. Before the invention of modern refrigerators, ice picks were a ubiquitous household tool used for separating and shaping the blocks of ice used in ice boxes. Ice picks can still be used today when your freezer gets too much ice around the edges and you need to pick away the ice while defrosting it. Unfortunately ice picks also have a grim past being used in the field of medicine. Medical instruments called leucotomes, and later orbitoclasts, both of which were essentially ice picks, to perform transorbital lobotomies. This operation was informally called "ice pick lobotomy": the leucotome was hammered into the patient's brain with a rubber mallet via the eye's tear duct. Our Renaissance Medieval Forged Ice Pick is strictly for ice so no lobotomies here. It is constructed of forged steel that has been twisted twice in the center for added flair to this simple design. One end has a blunt pick to chip away at the ice and the other end has a small double sided hammer that comes to a point in the center. The steel has been blackened and antiqued to give the piece a traditional old world feel.