Balance For The Day Job And The Clay Job | Drake Bialecki | Episode 1159
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 26 August 2025
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Drake Bialecki is a Bend, Oregon-based studio potter and organic farm specialist. With a BA in Organic Farming and pottery apprenticeship with Dark Horse Pottery and The Leach Pottery, Drake's diverse background spans international pottery residencies, winemaking, and renowned art shows. Drake's founded Pacific Stone Pottery in 2017 and advocates for handmade ceramics and farm-fresh food.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:02.0 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.5 | It's a community of potters dedicated to grow their business. |
| 0:08.8 | We're picking up where the art degree ends. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm your host, Paul Blaze. |
| 0:14.4 | Hello and welcome to episode number 1,159 of the Potter's cast. Okay, I'm just going to tell you right now, I am not going to go on to a long |
| 0:27.8 | dialogue here about, or I should say monologue about what's going on in for the studio, because |
| 0:34.9 | I feel like last time I really went to town on you and I |
| 0:39.2 | apologize. That was a long intro. I took last week off. So we took a week off because honestly |
| 0:49.0 | we were we were just a bit beat and we just kind of needed to get our heads on straight and get some work done |
| 0:55.9 | last week we got our new kiln um we went down picked it up and here's the gig i went to put it in a spot |
| 1:06.9 | where i thought it should go and when i and when to do it, it's a 1227 three phase |
| 1:12.0 | kiln. And when I went to put it in a spot that I was thinking, okay, we'll put it here |
| 1:16.7 | temporarily. It was like, it took up the whole room. I was like, uh, I can't do this here. But I was |
| 1:23.2 | wanting to do it there because it was right behind a panel to where I could just cut right |
| 1:29.8 | under the wall and put that hard wire right into the panel. |
| 1:33.9 | And so I was all thinking this is going to be easy peasy and it wasn't. |
| 1:37.9 | It doesn't work there. |
| 1:40.1 | So now I've got to put it all the way on the other side of the building. |
| 1:43.7 | And that means that I have to run 200 amps through a dropped T-grid ceiling all the way from one side of the building. |
| 1:52.8 | So I was really overwhelmed last week. |
| 1:55.3 | So we're working on that. |
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