A fierce man who makes wooden stool by using only 'his body' without using machines and tools

Nicholas Bentel , an artist residing in New York, is talking about using "only parts of his body" as a tool and making a stool (a chair without a backrest by one piece ).

Why This Guy Made a Wooden Stool With His Mouth - Motherboard
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/ywejem/why-this-guy-made-a-wooden-stool-with-his-mouth

In the world there are all kinds of tools to help produce products such as tools and machines. Mr. Bentell also understands the convenience of the tool, but "products made using tools are made up of so many parts that it makes it possible for the product to be composed of exactly what parts and how much It is difficult to understand whether it will be made over the time of the product "It is said that if you try to make products using only the human body, how much energy is needed to make the product again? I tried to think about.

So Ben Tel cooperated with his father Paul who is also an architect and craftworker and started a project to try to make a stool using only his body as a tool. Mr. Bentell says, "The greatest characteristic of human beings is to use tools," and through experiences making stools using the "body", the most familiar tool, "I became human again" I am talking.

A movie that recorded the process of Mr. Bentell making a stool is published on YouTube.

Part 2 | All Purpose Nik (2018)


In modernized society, familiar products are produced using convenient machines.

Even a simple stool that only one person sits is made using so many machines.

Chop a tree with a chainsaw ......

I will carry it out with a trailer.

The wood is cut into a fixed shape by machine ......

Parts of the stools are formed using drills and the like.

A large number of parts are used to construct one stools.

Once the parts are assembled and the stools are completed ......

It is carried using cars and boats.

Mr. Bentel decided to make such a stool using only his own body.

First we go to the forest with bare hands to procure timber.

After discovering a tree of good feeling coloring around for a while, ... ....

I will try to push it by pushing it by hand. Of course, I will not use a chain saw. "Beating a tree with bare hands was hard work to death," Bentell says.

Climb up the adjacent trees ......

Ben Tel struggle to defeat the tree somehow by kicking the upper part of the tree that he wants to knock down with.

In addition to kicking with a foot, trying to push trees in every way, such as pushing with the back.

Hold the trees and apply weight, etc ......

Finally the tree began to tilt.

And finally succeeded in defeating the tree.

Bentell who is out of breath and shows a smile.

After that, Mr. Bentel will beat down a tremendous tree ......

I will carry the trees to the workshop. It is natural that you carry trees.

It seems that it was a forest behind the studio just behind the tree, but still told that it took five hours to defeat the tree and carry it.

Next, it is light and easy to process from the fallen trees, and the balsa wood suitable for making the stools is selected because the strength is great for the weight.

I did not use a machine to sort wood, so I used Bentel's teeth to check strength and hardness.

"In this process, blood got better than I thought," Bentell said. ....

With chewed wood, the gums were scratched and blood flowed.

"It is dangerous to examine the strength of wood with teeth", so we chose to use a hard "nail" next to "teeth" in the human body.

Once we decide which wood to use, we will tell you to make stool for those with knowledge of woodworking.

Mr. Paul, Mr. Bentell's father, is a woodworking trader.

Under the constraint that "every kind of tool used in ordinary woodworking can not be used", Paul invented a design drawing of a stool which somehow can be made only by human body.

Mr. Bentell will process the wood as shown in the design drawing, but since we can not use the tool, we bite the balsa material with teeth to form it.

When Paul grabbed Mr. Bentel's head and pushed the wood against the mouth, it seems as if Paul is using the tool "Mr. Bentel".

The details are cut with Ben Tel's claws.

"I kept working for two days, both teeth and nails were scraped off," Bentell said.

Since there is no tool to measure the length, measure the length of the member instead of Bentel's body as a major.

With scraping and cutting wood with teeth ......

Repeat spitting wood accumulated in the mouth.

When the member is completed, it will enter the final process.

Put the legs on the pedestal of the stool, Paul will drive in with the fist of Mr. Bentel as a hammer.

I also typed the fourth leg ......

Turn it over and hit it with a fist from above the pedestal.

As a result of cutting out nine members in total, taking 3 days ......

Stool is managed somehow.

Paul san tried trying, it never broke.

Mr. Bentell ...

I was able to sit properly.