TL;DR

Adam Savage spent almost two years gutting down a classic Emeco Navy chair—drilling thousands of precisely laid-out holes into its welded-aluminum frame—to see just how light he could make it without losing its iconic strength.

What began as a simple “how light can we go?” experiment turned into an exercise in engineering, CNC-level planning and endless hole-drilling setups, all documented in a fun Tested video.

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