How Sturdy is Adam's Modified Emeco Navy Chair?

Adam Savage begins by explaining that a few months ago he spent years drilling over a thousand holes in an Emeco Navy chair, one of his favorite projects that he believes will outlive him. The Emeco company reached out after loving his modification and stories, offering to send him an unsullied version for comparison. When he receives and unboxes the new chair, he's impressed by the company's confidence in their product and simple packaging. He describes the physical comedy of lifting the modified chair, comparing it to juggling objects of vastly different weights - a ping-pong ball with bocce balls - where the lightness becomes physically hilarious yet the strength remains intact. Using a new 110-pound capacity scale with 5-gram resolution, he weighs both chairs, finding the original weighs 6 pounds 8 ounces while his modified version weighs 3 pounds 12 ounces. He notes humorously that his modified chair weighs almost the same as the shipping box. When testing both chairs by sitting in them, he discovers the modified version has become more elastic and responsive, with visible movement and bending, while the original remains monolithic and unmovable. He concludes by praising Emeco's work and announcing the chairs will have pride of place at their conference table, followed by a brief advertisement for signed posters of his old toolboxes.