I am soon to be building a small shop. Will be 1/2 storage but 1/2 working space as well. I have room for 15 linear ft of tabletop that I expect to be about 2 ft deep. That just works out well as I can buy 1 sheet of plywood and slit it into the 2 halves I need and just trim the ends to fit into the wall studs. Of this 15 ft I will be splitting it between reloading with 3 mounted presses (LCT, LCC, PW duomatic 20ga), casting with a 4-10 pot and a few molds and PC toaster oven, and fly tying. I figure I need about 3 ft total for flies, and since casting and reloading kinda go together I can split the remaining 12 ft up as needed. Kinda leaning to giving about 4 ft to casting and the rest to reloading. The shot shell press will not see a whole lot of use, but I want it there. I’m not opposed to buying quick change mounts for the presses to save space if needed.
Is 4 ft really enough for a very basic casting operation? Yes I know I will grow into the space and end up needing more, but it seems reasonable to me at this point. I may be wrong though. I’m currently casting on the end of my general tool bench and really don’t like the setup since that room is needed for my other tools.