Building the Uninstable Stool

Sometimes looks can be deceiving. I set out to create a stool based on the instability of newborn animals, like newborn moose. Something which visually would appear different from the actual feel and comfort of the final result. Hope you enjoy the build!
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Video:
Wonderful Wyoming Wildlife - Newborn Moose - 5/22/17 by Fy Nyth
• Wonderful Wyoming Wild...
Used with permission
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Music:
Ampletunes - Consuelo
Ampletunes - Gold Rush
Wowa.me - They Say
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[@hershmysson]

The craftsmanship is of the highest quality

[@michaelcherry8952]

It's just so relaxing watching a careful craftsman at work. A great way to start the day. Looking forward to the matching table :)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Funny! I have actually been thinking about building a small table based on the Lamé superellipse. So who knows, who knows! 🙂

[@nowoneknowsme]

The amount of love and attention to detail is incredible.

[@Woodden]

Love the look of the plywood. Great design for the stool.

[@pco1984]

The music is very on fleek. At least that's how you kids talk nowadays I think. I like it!

[@notsure7404]

it isn't

[@Phantomthecat]

Lovely design and construction - I enjoyed sitting down and watching this - I like sitting down...

[@joshuarhodes1218]

I love the music and another satisfying build to watch!

[@BeInspiredwithDominic]

Nice chair and all, but I would like to hear your views on the instability of newborn mooses. It is too hot a topic to be left unspoken, after all. Thanks for sharing!

[@not2fast4u2c]

All the pieces fit together so nice ...Like a machinist made it...I want to steal that big giant oscillating belt sander !!!!

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

Well ... do not forget You have to put it in Your workshop having stolen it. 😂 I was like "oh I want this thing!" too, at first, but quickly reconsidered, thinking of where I would squeeze it between all those other awesome machines I had to build or aquire: how many belt sanders does a workshop has to have?

[@not2fast4u2c]

It is a Beast of a Machine !!!@@manfredschmalbach9023

[@WoodworkingBarcelona]

Very nice one mate. It's good to see you again, even more with this woodworking project.

[@BruceAUlrich]

Great video! Enjoyed seeing this one come together.

[@LetsPrepTogether]

Love the design and the music was a nice touch.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Thanks man!

[@kentowakai1234]

The little 3D printed one at the end, is that a stool sample? Nurse joke.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Indeed it is! It’s a prototype stool, a proto stool. If that makes it better? 😬

[@AcrimoniousMirth]

Switch & Lever in case you missed it, the joke comes from the fact that faeces are often referred to as “stool” in the medical fields and a “stool sample” is a faecal sample.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Watch the last five seconds of the video and ask yourself if I didn’t know that 😉

[@pianystrom8137]

It makes it way worse. You made a proper sized stool. Now we must talk about wood.@@SwitchAndLever

[@trevchumby]

“Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process”

[@KarlGBergman]

Nice work! Pretty relaxing to watch. :D

[@aarondcmedia9585]

Not even Frank Horwarth has a panel saw. Impressive wood working toolshop mate. Cool stool, too.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Frank has a lot of other awesome stuff though! 😄

[@IrishGroome]

You're a perfectionist I see 👍

[@greammreaper]

This video has lots of epic workshop channel vibes

[@masterofnone]

This gives me good ideas about my next stool. It's going to be a solid one.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Ooh! Interesting! Looking forward to seeing it!

[@moth.monster]

I honestly prefer all the talking in your other videos, personally.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Different videos call for different styles. This project didn’t really need a lot of talking :)

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

Switch + Lever

[@WorksbySolo]

Beautiful piece! I’d love to hear more about your design process. Maybe see some of the iterations you possibly went through.

[@SwitchAndLever]

There’s a lot that goes on in my head. I iterate a bit subconsciously. For this once I actually drew it up on paper and in CAD it was already done in my head and the CAD step was mostly to confirm thicknesses and proportions. From there it’s just building. I guess that’s part of the beauty of doing things for myself, I don’t have to validate and communicate each iterative step that goes on inside my, admittedly messy, mind 🙂

[@pianystrom8137]

Very relaxing! I would not have left the wood plugs sticking out, though... That said, nicely done!

[@SwitchAndLever]

In my opinion it looks nicer with them sticking out, the plan was to cut them off, but when I saw how they looked I left them there.

[@pianystrom8137]

The master is the master! @@SwitchAndLever

[@AtomicShrimp]

Very beautiful. I was so pleased you didn't trim off those last three dowels.

[@SwitchAndLever]

The plan was actually to trim them, but then I saw how nice they looked so I just had to keep them there 🙂

[@bahahajahmed3336]

Loved it. Great Job.

[@radhead]

Great job (as always)! looks like the top is a reuleaux triangle which is a shape of constant width, so you get extra points for that :)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Haha! Oh yeah, you’re absolutely correct. I just went back to look because I totally forgot about that. I recorded this video over a year ago 😬

[@radhead]

@@SwitchAndLever I'm pretty obsessed about these shapes, I even made a video about them on my channel. so it was a real treat to see you use them :D

[@SwitchAndLever]

I’m also quite fascinated with the Lamé curve, or superellipse. Been wanting to do something with that for a while.

[@radhead]

@@SwitchAndLever Would love to see you build something inspired by these curves. A hyperboloid could make a nice stool as well, and it can be constructed using only straight lines

[@SeidenFisk]

I would have liked to hear about how this stool was inspired by the instability of a newborn moose. Also please do us all a favor and use some scrap wood for pushing wood through the bandsaw instead of getting your fingers quite that close. That being said, I learned a lot and got some new ideas about woodworking from this video, and that stool is absolutely beautiful. Thank you for sharing.

[@SwitchAndLever]

It’s literally only that, there isn’t so much design process going into it beyond that. I draw up a couple of sketches, spend a little time in cad, print the mock-up you see at the end and then decide to build. My fingers aren’t really all that close, and I’ve never even had a close call with a bandsaw. I don’t use my arms so much for pushing, because I know what happens if something slips. I push from the hip more to have a more solid base, and don’t push in line with the blade unless it’s far away. Always keep my hands to the side or behind the blade if they’re getting close 🙂

[@croyce7699]

@@SwitchAndLever you should lower the top guide rollers as an extra safety measure. There's a lot of blade sticking out just waiting to grab you

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yep, but it’s a conscious choice for the video, as they’d obstruct the view. What I do on and off camera is a little different, and sometimes compromises are made for the sake of the video 🙂

[@lobitome]

@@SwitchAndLever i think you should do things YOUR way, and everyone else can do things their way. As someone who has had a pretty nasty cut from a table saw blade, I understand why the safety concerns, but no amount of careful helps sometimes. And if you cut yourself, that is how you learn not to do something a certain way again.

[@iannesbitt2986]

Another great video. I wish you could make them more often.

[@SwitchAndLever]

I need to record more new material. This one was recorded over a year ago. Much has happened on the personal front which has made it difficult to keep up unfortunately. Glad you liked it 🙂

[@TrojanHorse1959]

Awesome build, thanks!

[@Saiserk]

Suscriber number 100000!!!

[@SwitchAndLever]

I’m afraid not. I passed 100000 yesterday. Check my Instagram for the announcement 🙂

[@Saiserk]

@@SwitchAndLever oh damn I really thought I was 😂😂

[@digitaIgorilla]

What a load of sit ;) Elegant.

[@COVET2010]

so relaxing to watch

[@keldsor]

Very, very nice indeed !

[@SwitchAndLever]

Thank you Keld! 🙂

[@RaldsonPereira]

Good project

[@Lemongrasspicker]

Nice work sir

[@npc6817]

next video suggestion, "How to get access to heavy machinery without going bankrupt and why using it does not in any way devalue my content" I can personally understand, but judging by the comments on most of your videos there might be some people who need this spelled out for them

[@tecnobs3d]

Snygg pall/stol och fint hantverk.

[@GregsGarage]

Lovely stool!

[@SwitchAndLever]

Thanks bro! 🙂

[@timberdish]

Really cool build & vid Daniel! Nice one :)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Cheers! 🙂

[@RRINTHESHOP]

Very Nice. Like the spray booth.

[@SwitchAndLever]

It is indeed pretty nice. Cheers! I appreciate it!

[@63ARK]

♥ ♥ ♥ Great & Beauty :) Thank you ♥

[@Khether0001]

you might want to lower the upper bearing guides on your bandsaw to reduce deflection

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yeah, they were placed higher than I’d like as a conscious choice so I could shoot better. If I was sawing without cameras they’d be much lower 🙂

[@garagemonkeysan]

Nice design and video. : )

[@RobertMilesAI]

8:58 ...Sparks?

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

👀 rewatched: 😳 sparks! ... needs adjustment.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yep, sparks. The bearings are shot, they were replaced shortly after this video was recorded. 🙂

[@doubledarefan]

@@SwitchAndLever Also, that blade is seriously dull.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Yep, tell me about it. 😄

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

I suppose You wouldn't get those appealing black-ish results on Your cut flanks with a less burn-prone blade, would You? 😂

[@adrianramirezp.6716]

muy buen trabajo

[@Lyndalewinder]

This is the first video of yours I have seen. I liked it but not the music - talking is so much better.

[@SushiKing123NorskGaming]

Thanks, amazing video!

[@ShadowoftheDude]

Um, I think you mean newborn meese... What a plebeian!

[@hansborgdesing]

En nydelig taburet, en rigtig god video. Men jeg forstår ikke hvorfor der skal være musik på lydsporet. Det forstyrer den gode oplevelse!

[@SwitchAndLever]

För att jag tycker om det och jag gör videor som jag själv tycker om 🙂

[@luisgerena6649]

You mentioned it being inspired by “mooses” . Are you sure you didn’t mean meese? :)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Actually it started as horses (heese?) but moose fit my northern Swedish narrative better 😉

[@reforzar]

Moosen. In the woods... woodsen.

[@manfredschmalbach9023]

The slightly outwardish legs are much more moose than heese. Heese with legs like that would be already on Your plate as sausage.

[@AcrimoniousMirth]

Moosae? 🤔

[@Mike_Regan]

That's the plural for "mouse"... as in one mouse, 2 meese. You know.. "I hate you meeses to pieces"!

[@scose]

watch at 2x the music still sounds good

[@GrahamDallas]

Great project and i loved the music, but I do miss your dulcet tones and witty narration

[@SwitchAndLever]

Haha! Thank you! I really appreciate it! I just wanted to get this video out and recording full narration and the extra time for editing would’ve meant a couple of days extra work, which I didn’t really have. I’ll probably continue narrating things on and off in upcoming videos. It’s much easier to get a nice flow going in the editing without narration, but I do enjoy narrating as well 🙂

[@Sotaio]

Toppen! Vad är det för verkstad du jobbar i? (Letar en i stockholmstraken själv :D)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Det spelades in på mitt förra jobb, en designstudio (med verkstad), belägen i en gammal kyrka. Tyvärr inget som man kan härja i om man inte är anställd där. För mycket hemliga kundprojekt som man måste vara sjukt försiktig att inte få med i bild.

[@Sotaio]

Synd, ser ju ut att vara fantastisk! :)

[@adrianramirezp.6716]

exelente estilo

[@censusgary]

What’s that wood? Birch?

[@wicked650s]

Is that Zach Herberholtz music I hear playing in the background?

[@LegoMan-cz4mn]

No it isn't, look in the description!

[@Tenfdy]

was this a foureyes reference at the beginning? ;D

[@tubeMonger]

I wonder if Alvar Aalto was thinking the instability like you did?

[@SwitchAndLever]

His was stackable though, mine is not unfortunately :)

[@tubeMonger]

@@SwitchAndLever Pretty cool nevertheless.

[@odustbrown1836]

My, what a huge head you have.

[@oussamaokbi]

You should contrast this video by making a flat tutorial on how to make a box :D

[@keithschuessler3435]

Laminate the seat as a curve?

[@tactiti0n]

Aye thats a conversation piece right there. Freak some people out at a family gathering or something

[@Khether0001]

it is beautiful and wonderfully made, but I'm pretty sure if I sat on one of those it would explode... I would hit my butt on the floor, two legs would fold up and hit me on the ears and one on the balls and teeth... 😐 ...really loved the build though!!! 👍😃

[@SwitchAndLever]

You’d be surprised how sturdy it is actually. I though it would at least flex a little when sitting but it doesn’t move a millimeter!

[@WoodByWright]

Hyper sexy! I might have to riff on that design sometime. maybe we should do a collab some time.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Oh please do! Would love to see what you can spawn from it! Definitely up for a collab! Come to Italy! 😄

[@WoodByWright]

@@SwitchAndLever SOunds good to me! are you going to be at Makers Central?

[@SwitchAndLever]

I haven’t made the final decision, but I hope so 🙂 I want to go to Maker Faire too, but they’re so close in time.

[@Makebuildmodify]

Wait....0:11 I'm confused....

[@SwitchAndLever]

Don’t mind that parrot, he’s always trying to get attention!

[@Makebuildmodify]

@@SwitchAndLever thought so...

[@SwitchAndLever]

Just try not to look at that hamster, it’s full of delusions of grandeur!

[@Makebuildmodify]

@@SwitchAndLever I wasn't. That's because I was distracted by the moose.

[@StephenBoyd21]

TOOLS TOOLS TOOLS. I wish I had more tools.

[@HolzMichel]

damn that bandsaw blade is dull.....and no set on the teeth....

[@Dan-sb2fb]

Who does your music

[@SwitchAndLever]

I always credit the music in the description of my videos and I have so far exclusively only used Creative Commons of public domain music.

[@Dan-sb2fb]

Oh cool thanks

[@Joseph-bk3hb]

That bandsaw blade might be ever so slightly.... dull.

[@SwitchAndLever]

Just a tad 😉

[@modestmaking5314]

Stoolception!

[@gusatvoschiavon]

CLAMP

[@andli]

Who has a workshop with amazing hardwood floor?

[@SwitchAndLever]

Someone who has a workshop in an old church! (the previous company I worked for)

[@andli]

@@SwitchAndLever du har det bra du. Keep up the good work. :)

[@SwitchAndLever]

Hade! Just nu är det bara rått betonggolv som gäller 😄

[@doubledarefan]

@@SwitchAndLever Must be building on the fact that Jesus is a carpenter!

[@censusgary]

Homemade plywood!

[@有趣的灵魂-s7n]

it will be very easy to fall

[@SwitchAndLever]

I didn’t realize you had a chance to sit on it to make that comment. It’s not more likely to fall than any other three legged stool.

[@SwitchAndLever]

I didn’t realize you had a chance to sit on it to make that comment. It’s not more likely to fall than any other three legged stool.

[@itsmomoz]

Try and make a real katanna as a change and challenge Btw like ur cHAirR

[@SwitchAndLever]

A real katana? Nah, I have really no desire to work as an apprentice to a master in Japan for many years to reach the level required to smelt my own iron ore and work it into a real katana. 😉

[@itsmomoz]

@@SwitchAndLever I know I watched the full 45min National Geographic documentary yesterday 😂 Just wanted to try my luck. there is not that much content about a DIY katanna out there, I mean come on it doesn't have to be perfect. 😂 Anyway keep up the good work love you're high quality videos

[@jonnymiskatonic]

Music for those with ADHD

[@louf7178]

It would be easier to write "stable" instead of "uninstable".

[@SwitchAndLever]

Indeed it would, but the whole point was to underline the apparent instability, with a double negation 🙂

[@PollyBonanzas]

The word uninstable confuses me. Is that even a word?

[@SwitchAndLever]

It’s a deliberate double negation making light of it looking unstable but actually being really stable. Think of it as a name rather than an actual word if it helps.

[@PollyBonanzas]

@@SwitchAndLever I see. So it's a bit of a pun then. lol. Yeah, I was hoping it would be elaborated on in the video. If it was, then I missed it. Cool stool nonetheless.

[@-Deena.]

'music' 😢

[@pavelpod7740]

That's one nice giant sander!