Fully Loaded chair made of shotgun shells

The fully loaded chair, made from 450 12-gauge shotgun shells has a "massaging texture" due to the protruding brass tips. Link (via Yanko Design)

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JackCastile

This looks like a prop from one of the Saw movies.
Dr Benway

It’s Dick “Shotgun” Cheney’s favorite chair!
dculberson

I hope they’re not fully loaded!
Harrkev

That should be “12 gauge” and not “.12 gauge” Technically, I think that 0.12 gauge would be about equivalent to a large cannon on a battleship.
Halloween Jack

I think that if you really want a massaging texture, you’d want to go with something like those beaded seat covers that you can get in auto part shops. Between this and the CD chair, chairs made of [random crap] are looking like the new art cars.
flappy

House fire = BOOM!
MCZ

The cases are unprimed, uncrimped, and empty. “Fully Unloaded” might be a more appropriate name for that uncomfortable-looking piece of furniture…
PeterOliver

Should come with a warning tag: DO NOT EAT CHILLI WHEN SITTING IN THIS CHAIR
NoneMoreBlack

Yes, it should be 12 gauge. The gauge number refers to the number of shot pellets that would weigh 1 pound; thus a pound of 12 gauge shot is 12 pellets. .12 gauge, if such a thing existed, wouldn’t be much; that is simply a 1/.12 pound shot, or 8.3 pounds. I suppose if you constructed a canister round out of such projectiles you would need the 14″ gun from a battleship to fire it.
NVSEM

Warning: Do not use as dorm furniture.
Ted Cantu

If someone ever falls over in this thing they’re dead. Seriously. It wouldn’t take much for one of these shells to go off.