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    Quote Originally Posted by Three44s View Post
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    Harbor freight bench made from "genuine Chinese oak". Plugged the holes in the top, reinforced the back with MDF, tossed the useless lower shelf and replaced with 2x6's. Just added the cinder block shelves after seeing it on another post.


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    New loading bench

    In the process of building a new loading bench. I picked out a birch butcher block top 1 3/4 thick and steel legs. It has 3 coats of poly but I'm still going to add more. I just set a couple of my presses on it to see how it looks. So far so good. Next is a shelf and a wall cabinet. It is 30 deep and 48 wide. Beats my old plywood bench. I'll post some more when I get it finished.
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    30 inches deep is an excellent depth. Enough to keep the bench from leaning forward when resizing yet narrow enough to go thru a standard door when moved. It is my new standard depth for a loading bench.
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    Quote Originally Posted by mwhite49 View Post
    In the process of building a new loading bench. I picked out a birch butcher block top 1 3/4 thick and steel legs. It has 3 coats of poly but I'm still going to add more. I just set a couple of my presses on it to see how it looks. So far so good. Next is a shelf and a wall cabinet. It is 30 deep and 48 wide. Beats my old plywood bench. I'll post some more when I get it finished.
    Mike
    Looks too pretty to put holes in

    Nice job.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mwhite49 View Post
    In the process of building a new loading bench. I picked out a birch butcher block top 1 3/4 thick and steel legs. It has 3 coats of poly but I'm still going to add more. I just set a couple of my presses on it to see how it looks. So far so good. Next is a shelf and a wall cabinet. It is 30 deep and 48 wide. Beats my old plywood bench. I'll post some more when I get it finished.
    Mike
    If you can afford the space, I'd mount it so that the 48" was perpendicular to the wall...you can mount press both sides and the end. That'd be like having an extra 48" and 30" of bench space.
    Gtrubicon did this to part of his bench area and it came out awesome.
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    2 more coats of poly. And almost ready to bolt it all up. Except on Sunday I take delivery of a nice old Hollywood senior turret press. I think this is a 8 hole, with only a couple of large holes. So now I have more head scratchin to do. For sur the Hollywood turret press and the Bonanza coax get bolt down. The Hollywood senior i may sell and the Dunbar.. Both are nice but im running out of room. Plus I have my CH444 press to mount. I'll take pictures next week.

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    Picked up my little piece, my Hollywood turret press. This one origialy was a 4x4. 4 normal and 4 large turret stations. Paint is almosg 100%. A bit dirty from setting unused for a few years. Now if I make a simple wood riser for it I can mount it away from the edge.

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    Heres mine, with out dated Tuff shed ambiance gun cabinet and room motif!

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    Wooden Riser

    I often mention building/using a simple wooden riser but have never posted a pic.
    Here's a riser made from one 8ft 2x6, on a HF grinder stand, under a drill press
    Note the bottom wing shelves can be used for clamping/bolting it to the bench, and the top wings used for finished round and bullet bins:
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    Quote Originally Posted by Moosegooser View Post
    Heres mine, with out dated Tuff shed ambiance gun cabinet and room motif!

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    looks nice, wish i had that much room.

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    Well done, Keystone.

    Moosegooser: That is one very nice loading room.

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    Apartment living

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    I have plastic tubs that slide under the bed in spare room to hold everything when my wife is home, and 2 sets of plastic drawers from Walmart stacked chest high in closet holds my goodies'.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randy C View Post
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    I have plastic tubs that slide under the bed in spare room to hold everything when my wife is home, and 2 sets of plastic drawers from Walmart stacked chest high in closet holds my goodies'.
    Great use of space. My wife would have a heart attack if she saw a press mounted to the kitchen counter....so kudos for pulling that one off

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    Quote Originally Posted by EddieZoom View Post
    Great use of space. My wife would have a heart attack if she saw a press mounted to the kitchen counter....so kudos for pulling that one off
    lol, my first thought was that he must be single...

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    the last time I tried that swmbo said " buying another house would be cheaper than having the kitchen redone to accomadate my hobby in HER kitchen" hasn't happened since LOL!!!!!

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    Good looking room Moosegooser

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