This is the Potter's Cast.

A podcast home for potters everywhere.

It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business.

We're picking up where the art degree ends.

I'm your host, Paul Blaze.

Hey, hey, hey, welcome to the Potter's Cast, and you are currently listening to episode

number 792 of the Potter's cast and you are currently listening to episode number 792 of the Potter's cast.

And this is the podcast where we talk about ceramics and we talk about the life of a person who works in ceramics.

And it is absolutely an endlessly fascinating to me that we have such an amazing variety of people

that are in the work in the field of ceramics. Absolutely fascinating to me. Today we've got

Hideo Mabuchi on the Potter's cast and And this is what's so cool about this guy.

I do call him a dude at the end of the show, but, you know, that's because I'm not, you know,

I'm a little bit uncouth. But anyhow, this is a guy that is a scientist and a ceramicist. And he approached, well, I should say, he's a physicist. So I guess you're, you know, a scientist and a physicist. He's a physicist. And he's also a woodfire potter. Like he does wood fire work. And his work is really amazing. But what's fascinating about

Hideo is that he thinks about it in terms of a physicist in the way that he approaches his ceramics.

And I just, I'm just blown away by that.

Yeah, so I'm excited to be able to bring this conversation to you.

So let's jump into this conversation that I had with Hadeo Mabuchi right after this word

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