Food-Safe Glazes | Gabriel Kline & Bill Collins | Episode 1175
The Potters Cast
Paul Blais
4.9 • 590 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
Gabriel Kline is the director of Odyssey ClayWorks in Asheville, NC. In addition to making large scale pots, Gabriel works with Veterans, recovery groups, and at-risk youth. He is also a founding member of the Loud Jackey Society (L.J.S.) at NCECA.
Bill Collins, PhD, is a professor of chemistry at Fort Lewis College in Colorado. He joined the college in 2011. With a background in synthetic organic and materials chemistry, his research focuses on developing and analyzing chemically durable glasses for ceramic applications, bringing a rigorous scientific approach to the testing and formulation of food-safe glazes. He is a co-author of Amazing Glaze Food-Safe Recipes. Before joining Fort Lewis, Dr. Collins was a postdoctoral fellow at MIT, studying graphene and carbon nanotube chemistry. He lives in Durango, Colorado.
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| 0:00.0 | This is the Potter's Cast. |
| 0:01.9 | A podcast home for potters everywhere. |
| 0:05.4 | 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. |
| 0:14.5 | Episode number 1,175 of the Potter's cast has just begun, and I want to say thank you for coming to the show. |
| 0:24.1 | We did have our open studios, you know, the Clark County Open Studios this past weekend. |
| 0:29.7 | It was phenomenal. |
| 0:30.6 | That was really cool. |
| 0:32.2 | Amazing people came through. |
| 0:33.7 | It was great. |
| 0:34.8 | I loved every second of it. |
| 0:37.2 | And something a little bit more important. I loved every second of it. And something a little bit more important. |
| 0:40.6 | I want to kind of tell you about that happened. We opened the kiln Friday morning, and there was a special |
| 0:50.4 | clay that I had that I fired. |
| 0:58.6 | And it is now my new favorite clay. |
| 1:05.3 | And it was, it wasn't, it wasn't a commercial clay. |
| 1:09.7 | Last year, when Jennifer and I were in this show here at our friend Jessica Joan's house, |
| 1:21.8 | we have a friend that came by and she had this cup that she had had this clay that she fired, |
| 1:35.1 | and it was just beautiful, like really gorgeous red clay. |
| 1:43.1 | But it's like it's, I can't even describe where it goes to, because it's not just |
| 1:50.4 | red, red, it's like this really earthy, um, yeah, ocher type red. And it's just so moving. So anyway, she brought this cup and she said that she had |
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