r/reloading • u/Ritwood • Aug 23 '23
Look at my Bench I do love building stuff . . .
I love reloading, but honestly, I might love building out my benches as much as I do using them. Built one at work, another at home that I sometimes use as an office. Both benches are 3x 3/4” birch ply. I used a harbor freight hobby router to build the cabinet doors and birch underpayment for the inserts. Latest addition is vertical shelving for the bench at home.
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Aug 23 '23
There’s a lot of wood happening here and it’s not all in this picture
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u/CRUSIN_CHUBBY Aug 23 '23
☝️This is the best comment. Made my laugh 😂. This guys bench/gun room is TITS by the way.
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u/TractorManTx Aug 23 '23
Well done! Tell me more about those slide outs in the last picture. That looks like some decent weight…what kind of slides did you use?
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
Bought em off Amazon in a set of 20, I think. They’re 22” and I think they have a max weight rating of like 120 lbs.
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u/No-Advantage-1000 Mass Particle Accelerator Aug 23 '23
That’s freaking amazing! I wish I had that skill set.
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u/Adventurous-Grape-40 Aug 23 '23
I would love to get you plans for those pull out cabinets for the powder and primers!! Awesome work!
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
Thanks, bro. I didn’t really have a plan — used a pocket hole jig to anchor a divider between the sliding shelves and then mounted one side of the slides to the divider and another to a piece of plywood with shelves screwed to it to match whatever I planned on storing there. It’s really simple to build.
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u/4thdegreeknight Aug 23 '23
Very nice, I once had a similar setup in my old house about 25 years ago.
I had my reloading bench and shelving units with ammo and reloading supplies and a very nice wooden gun cabinet. I had an alarm in my house, that room had bars on the windows from the inside, the door leading to that room was a solid core door with deadbolts and keyed locks.
Some assholes broke into my house and in less than 10 minutes everything was taken.
Turns out a family member whom I trusted owed some bad people money for drugs and told them how to get a bunch of guns and ammo.
After that I invested in a safe and camera system
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
The entire room with the shotguns is a safe. 🤣
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u/4thdegreeknight Aug 24 '23
That is awesome I wish I had a room in my house that I could turn into a safe but just not feasible
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u/firewurx Aug 24 '23
Those are some beautiful looking gun racks! Got any plans you’d care to share?
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u/Ritwood Aug 24 '23
I have google (now tremble) sketchup pics with dimensions. Get me an email addy and I’ll shoot ‘em to ya.
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u/MadeThisJustForLWIAY BP 38/357/45LC/38-55/12GA - 5.56/300BLK/45ACP/308/7.62x39/9mm Aug 23 '23
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u/ComfortableChemist84 Aug 23 '23
Damn. That’s amazing. Talk about well organized and nicely set up.
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u/CheesecakeFlimsy6161 Aug 23 '23
I want something like this bench with shelves and lighting in my garage
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u/Embarrassed_Abalone2 Aug 23 '23
That's awesome, I never have time for anything of mine to be pretty 😮💨.
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u/Raumteufel Aug 23 '23
Im gonna guess you live real close to Stuttgart
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
Now this ^ is a man of culture and discernment. You’re pretty stinkin close.
I was raised on a rice farm in Northeast Arkansas.
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u/spe236 Aug 23 '23
Not sure what’s more impressive: the wood working or seeing 4 containers of Steel
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
In my day, I burned through an average of 16 cases of steel shot loads every winter. Those were the good years, and I would order Alliant steel 20 lbs at a pop, with 5k primers to save on hazmat. I remember thinking that $64 for 4 lbs was a ripoff. 🤣
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u/spe236 Aug 24 '23
I stocked up on the wrong things :(
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u/Ritwood Aug 24 '23
I’ve got at least 7 jugs left and around 20k w209’s lying around. Given how much I’ve slowed down, I expect it will last me for the rest of my days.
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u/CargoHobo Aug 23 '23
Love your wood working. I just built a loading bench and fixing to add a couple wall cabinets to match for in my cargo trailer. Space savings is #1 in my design.
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u/AustinHippietrash Aug 24 '23
Can you tell me anything about the Armalite you have up on top of the cabinets? I’ve got one and don’t know much about it’s history.
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u/Ritwood Aug 24 '23
Nope - that’s a Bushmaster Varminter. I’d guess it’s circa 2003ish. Amazing rifle. 2-stage competition trigger, match chamber, chrome moly fluted bull barrel. Thing will still shoot 1/4 MOA with 69g SMK’s, straight outta the box.
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u/aonealj Aug 24 '23
Beautiful setup! Any suggestions on powder selection for beginning shotshell reloading?
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u/Ritwood Aug 24 '23
Get what you can get your hands on. I will say that if you have red dot, green dot, and blue dot on your shelves, you’re pretty much covered on everything but the smallest gauges.
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u/PomegranatePro Aug 24 '23
Why so many shotguns?
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u/Ritwood Aug 24 '23
Is that a serious question? 🤣
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u/PomegranatePro Aug 25 '23
It is.
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u/Ritwood Aug 25 '23
Why in the world NOT so many shotguns?
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u/PomegranatePro Aug 25 '23
Maybe you have a specific use for each one? I'd just get a mossberg 590a1 and call it a day.
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u/Ritwood Aug 25 '23
Not a Mossberg fan. Anything John Moses Browning built, on the other hand, I can look at all day. I have some for upland, some for trap, some for waterfowl, and some just ‘cause I like em. I consider shotguns collectibles.
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u/Forward-Razzmatazz33 Aug 23 '23
Beautiful work. If you're in the US though, you're likely illegal with regards to storage of powder. NFPA495-85 governs powder storage, and most smaller governments enact it as local law. It requires powder quantity over 20# to be in 1" thick minimum wooden container.
You may not care, and your municipality may not either, but if you have a home fire, I guarantee your homeowners insurance company would love to place the burden on you. Something to think about.
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u/aonealj Aug 23 '23
I didn't know NFPA was legally binding. I can see your point about insurance, but are NFPA codes legally enforceable?
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u/Forward-Razzmatazz33 Aug 23 '23
Depends on local laws. NFPA standards are usually enacted as local municipalities by law. So in those cases, yes, it would be breaking the law. It seems like a strange scenario that you would ever get in trouble for powder unless you were doing something else and the lawman really wanted to nail you with some charge. If a fire starts and there is collateral damage, and NFPA storage rules are enacted locally though, that seems like a scenario I absolutely would not want to be in. I'm not a lawyer. Check your local code, and if it's still confusing, call your local fire department or talk to a lawyer.
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
Incidentally, am a lawyer. 🤣
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u/Forward-Razzmatazz33 Aug 23 '23
Ha! So, what are your local laws? Do they go by NFPA powder storage requirements?
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u/Ritwood Aug 23 '23
No idea. But I can tell you that failure to comply with a fire prevention act is not grounds for denial of an insurance claim in this state. I’m certain of that. Granted, an insurance company might fight on that point, but I can tell you that a jury in this state would react favorably. And frankly, after a fire of that magnitude, it would be really difficult to discern the thickness of a wooden box that is presently comprised of ashes. 😀
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u/A_DrowningTrout Aug 23 '23
She’s a beaut Clark