gigemags87 said:
Another thing you could try that I've seen but not done is use a small insulated cooler/lunch box (like the 6-can ones from igloo or Coleman) with no top to make your own large clear Ice rectangle and use a serrated knife to cut the shapes you want.
This is what I do. It takes just under 24 hours in my freezer. It's important that you take it out before the water freezes all the way through, that is when the pressure cracks form. You should have a bit of unfrozen water on the bottom of the igloo if you do it right.
As for cutting, I use an old bread knife to score each side about 1/4th they way through, and then break off into sink. Sometimes you get jagged edges, but I think those look cool, too. You can rinse with water to take off any sharp peices.
I used distilled water out of my counter-top distiller.
In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it. It was inevitable that they should make that claim sooner or later: the logic of their position demanded it. Not merely the validity of experience, but the very existence of external reality, was tacitly denied by their philosophy. The heresy of heresies was common sense -George Orwell, 1984, Part 1, Chapter 7
