1,000 Floating Fake Ice Cubes

This is a small part of the 1,000 floating rubber ice cubes we made for Set Shop.

Set Shop now has Floating Ice

Set Shop, New York City now has several hundred of our floating rubber ice cubes in stock. Stop by Set Shop on West 20th Street and check them out. They offer quantity discounts.

Floating Fake Ice Cubes

Here's a still shot of our new floating ice cubes in water. They're currently available from our web site, and later this week they can be found at Set Shop in New York City. Set Shop will offer them at the same retail price as our site, with the added convenience of being able to order them over the phone or buy them in person.

We're very proud of these cubes, it took months of development to get the look we were going for in a floating cube. We hope you'll like them, too. And don't forget to leave a review on our site when you've tried them for yourself.

Floating Fake Ice Cubes

Check out this vidcap from the movie Fight Club. Note the meticulously styled shot - how the items are all carefully placed in front of Edward Norton, two Gerber daisies in a slender vase to his left. To an experienced eye, it shows that a lot of time and energy went into creating this scene. But something is glaringly wrong: The ice is at the bottom of the glass. It's clearly fake ice, but it doesn't float. Imagine how much better this shot would be if the ice cubes were at the top of the glass. A small detail like that obviously doesn't make or break a movie like Fight Club, but it could have been better.

Now it can be. We just made what we believe to be the most convincing artificial floating ice ever made. The best part is they're inexpensive and last for days of shooting. Worry not about drink continuity again - our floating rubber cubes solve that problem and more. Check them out here: Floating Prop Ice Cubes

Big Custom Cubes

Since taking our business online a few months ago, we've gotten quite a few requests for large cubes -- some as big as fifteen inches. We recently made our biggest fake ice cubes yet. The two shown here (with a small child for scale) were 3 and 4 inch cubes. The 4 inch cube is the largest we can make by hand -- anything bigger would have to be a custom molded acrylic piece.

More Changes

It's been a while since we posted last. Things are happening at Lead Salad. We upgraded our credit card processing to Authorize.net. Paying by credit card has never been easier on out site - you now have more ways to pay: PayPal; mail a check, credit card number, or money order; or pay with Visa, Mastercard or American Express right on the site!

We're also working on two new projects. We get a lot of questions about our handmade acrylic ice cubes from people all over the world. One question is: Do they float? The answer is unfortunately they do not float. We're working on a solution to that problem however. Can't give out any details right now, but it's going to be revolutionary. The second most commonly asked question is: Your cubes are expensive, do you have a cheaper alternative? We soon will. We're exploring our options to carry both inexpensive molded plastic cubes from another supplier and to make molded versions of our handmade cubes. We'll update this blog, our FaceBook page, and FakePlasticIceCubes.com with the new items as they become available.

Internationally Known

Sales are picking up thanks to an increase in traffic to our site - it helps that we launched our full e-commerce system this month. We made a sale to a very established drink photographer in the U.K. He mentioned that one of the few fake ice fabricators in England recently shut its doors. We're happy to pick up where they left off! Check out our new site if you need fake ice!