I moved last February and since then I have been using a very heavy folding steel table as a reloading bench. I have used it off and on over 30 years as an interim solution while I got around to building something permanent.

I'm at that stage again of thinking about designs I can build into the wall in the area I located in the attic. I've got an area about 12' long and 8' deep. The back wall is made of concrete block and I will anchor whatever I build into that.

I have a Dillon 550 but don't think I will install it, just an RCBS Ammomaster and a Jr press since I am not buring up tons of 308 these days. When I do load 308 it is rarely more than 50rds for hunting, mostly loading BP cartridge. I use the Jr exclusively for depriming and the Ammomaster for loading.

Along with the presses I will mount two UniFlow measures that are on a single base with a drop-tube between them and a separate RCBS priming tool.

I know I have lots of space but would be interested in how others have laid out their benches. THIS WILL BE THE LAST ONE I BUILD!!!!

Back at the turn of the century, I made this one:

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Scale is at eye level and bench is very solid.

Ray_Newman wrote on Jan 31^st, 2024 at 1:33pm:


I built this same one around 1985. Lots of storage space and still as solid as the day I built it.

I would likely need to take out a loan to buy the plywood and 4x4s now.

Like mine - every flat spot - including the top of piles, has something on it. Everything on the actual bench is now (actually, has been for quite some time) at the angle of natural repose....

I don't believe you're a real reloader unless it's like this!

Damnit, I know it's here somewhere!

My bench was easy! I was doing some electrical work for a local bank during a remodel and they were tearing out counters. One was a 8 ft. long coin counter they used for sorting machines, and it is all steel square box tubing, with a lower shelf, and a formica 1.25" thick top shelf. The counter is taller than a normal counter top at around 40" which I really like.
The workers hauled it down to the compactor area and were going to have a scrapper haul it off. I stopped them and told them I'd haul it away. It was a bit of a task to get it downstairs into my basement gun room, but it's been my only bench for several decades. I built shelves to sit against the wall that hold all my dies and various accessories. Have a vise on one end and my reloading tools spaced along the edge. The shelf below has plastic storage bins for all my brass. 

My reloading room.

1962'ish cabinets came out of a kitchen I built new cherry replacements for. They're of a historical period in the business that interested me so.... kept them. Have a very "lab" look/feel to them. Own a mill shop so can have pretty much anything.... these are very special to folks in the biz.