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The Potters Cast

A Mechanical Engineer Takes On Clay | Chris Pratt | Episode 1147

The Potters Cast

Paul Blais

Careers, Visual Arts, Business, Arts

4.9590 Ratings

🗓️ 8 July 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Chris Pratt is a mechanical engineer who makes double walled ceramic mugs. After being laid off during Covid Chris started designing and making plaster molds for slip casting. Over the past few years Chris has refined his process with automated casting and glazing machines.

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0:00.0

This is the Potter's Cast.

0:02.0

A podcast home for potters everywhere. It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their

0:08.0

business. We're picking up where the art degree ends. I'm your host, Paul Blaze. Hello and

0:15.4

welcome to episode number 1,147 of the Potter's cast.

0:22.6

Wow.

0:23.7

I got to talk to the coolest dude.

0:26.5

His name is Chris Pratt.

0:28.7

Not the actor, Chris Pratt.

0:31.2

I'm talking about the dude that's a little bit more significant to the world.

0:35.9

I'm talking about Chris Pratt the ceramicist.

0:40.2

Man, the guy is absolutely amazing. I had the best time talking with him because a few years ago,

0:48.7

I discovered the dude on Instagram and he was blowing my mind.

0:54.9

I loved what he was doing, but I did not know at the time was that the guy was really

1:02.7

working hard to create something new and significant.

1:07.6

And he was going through all sorts of testing and stuff like that.

1:12.5

So I reached out to him back then.

1:23.3

And he said, not yet. And I'm so stoked that he waited till now because he is, he's amazing. He's invented a new way of making, making slipcast pots. And if you know of his work on Instagram,

1:33.1

then you already know that this is really amazing. This is one of those shows because there's

1:39.6

some technical conversation that's going on there. When I say technical, technical on his side, because on my side, I'm just the,

1:47.6

you know, I'm just a knucklehead trying to understand the depth of the understandings that he has.

1:55.3

Anyhow, this is one of those episodes where it's really worth your while to just take a moment

2:00.7

and go to the

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