Building a Reloading Workbench – Do’s & Don’ts

By Tom McHale

By Preston Bankson,
Learn from my successes, and my mistakes, as you build a custom reloading bench.

U.S.A. – After a few years of reloading on modified garage shelving, I decided it was time to build a legit reloading workbench.

Upfront disclaimer: My bench resides in a spare bedroom. This means my bench features two particular features that I would change were it in a garage:

1. I would bolt the bench to the wall
2. My wife asked that I make a sincere effort to make the bench “as attractive as possible,” which I accomplished with precise measurements and wood stain.

Bench Do’s

Blueprint the bench – MUST DO

My wife comes from an architecture background and is a real whiz in software programs like AutoCAD, Google SketchUp, etc. In a few hours over drinks she modeled out my bench, and we figured out that some of the structural elements that I was planning wouldn’t work. This saved me time and money by eliminating build errors up front.

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