reloading bench
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AJ
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Some of you folks are just way to neat in your reloading!
I would love to have the space for a dedicated reloading bench!
For now, I just hijack my fabrication bench when I need to load. Presses are on sliding mounts (like a hitch receiver) I came up with so I can 'quick change' tools.
For those of you loading indoors, be very careful loading on carpet... any spilled powder, or a rogue primer can get exciting in a vacuum cleaner...
For now, I just hijack my fabrication bench when I need to load. Presses are on sliding mounts (like a hitch receiver) I came up with so I can 'quick change' tools.
For those of you loading indoors, be very careful loading on carpet... any spilled powder, or a rogue primer can get exciting in a vacuum cleaner...
Believe it or not, this is after I cleaned up and reorganized my reloading area!
My digital powder system is on a separate bench. Underneath is every lubricant known to man!
My digital powder system is on a separate bench. Underneath is every lubricant known to man!
Ed333, I LOVE the wood top on your bench! I have a similar piece of wood that I've been meaning to use for a new reloading bench. It is not anywhere near as nice, in condition, as yours though.
DeplorabusUnum
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Here's mine....function only, and temporary...maybe once we move I'll set up something more pernanent.
Robert
I started just like this in our bedroom before moving to a home with a shop. My wife was gracious enough to let me have a corner of our room. You gotta use what you've got.
Kp321
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AJ
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Being empty nesters, I took a bedroom in the back of the house. Out the back window was a porch that ran 35'X12'. I opened the window to make a doorway and then walled in an area 20'X12' for my use also.
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AJ
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Nice looking bench. But have a question: Why take the steel legs off? Mine is rock solid with them. Personal preference? Aesthetics? Just curious. I use two roll-away tools bases under mine for storage.
When I first started loading with a press (Lee Loader on the kitchen table prior), I lived in a very small apartment and used a little wooden drop leaf table with a storage compartment. It got the job done back then. Looks like you're gettin' it done!
Kp321
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The reloading bench had to look like furniture according to the interior decorator (wife) since it was in the house to start with. I repurposed the steel legs to make a shop work bench using plywood as a top.
Chubbs103
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DeplorabusUnum
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AJ
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Thank you for the kind words. My Grandsons and oldest Granddaughter are already staking claims on the contents.
G-Mac, Thank you. there is a local mill shop, Fat Andy's Hardwoods, and I had them make up the top, 2" thick, northern hardwoods (their least expensive layup), and it was sized to fit a maple bolt together bench base I got on sale from Rockler's. I stained and varnished the base, and installed two baltic birch shelves on cross-stretchers of the bench. With lots of bullets and brass loaded onto the shelves, plus the weight of the hardwood structure, it isn't going anywhere. Previous comment was good advice, avoid carpet. I was lucky, our family room has a tile floor, and I have instructed my wife to not vacuum my corner, without getting into details. I keep the area clean with a woodworker's bench brush and damp paper towels, which get disposed of quickly.
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AJ
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I just finished this recently and took a few pics today and had to share. It's built on a cedar frame using the Eastwood bench kit, solid core door for a top, the bottom shelf holds 16 "fat50" ammo cans. The top shelves are built from 2x12 boards on 1" iron pipe pedestals. The cedar fence pickets on the back tie it all together.
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Baltimoreed11754
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Like your guardfox. Nice bench.
