TL;DR

Adam Savage spent almost two years turning a classic Emeco 1006 Navy Chair into the world’s lightest perforated seat, drilling thousands of precisely laid-out holes into its welded aluminum frame. What started as a simple “let’s make it lighter” experiment quickly ballooned into a mind-bending geometry puzzle of layouts, jigs, and machining challenges.

Warning: this video is packed with up-close shots of clustered holes—definitely not for the faint-hearted or those with trypophobia!

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