Sturdy Reloading Bench Plans on NRA Website
The NRA’s American Rifleman Online website has an excellent article this month that shows how to construct a rock-solid Reloading Bench. There are plenty of photos, and a detailed set of Bench Blueprints showing all dimensions and listing all needed materials. This bench is very well designed, with many deluxe features, such as an upper drawer with fitted slots for die boxes, and large lower drawers with 100-lb rated slides to store heavy materials or tools. If you have good wood-working skills this would be an excellent project for the fall or winter (but if you’ve never done anything but assemble IKEA furniture, you may want to stick to a simpler design).
The author, Dave Campbell, offers good advice on building the bench top: “I ripped a sheet of 3/4″ AC plywood into two 24″ wide pieces and cut them to 72″ long. Then I glued them together to form a 72″ long, 1 1/24″ thick top. The trick here is to keep the edges smooth and flat so that the laminate will adhere properly and without voids. I chose a light grey laminate finish for the top because it’s easier to see what I am working on and keep clean. If you have never worked with laminate, remember it’s prudent to glue and rout the edges flush before gluing on the top. The top was attached to the carcass with eight steel L-shaped angle brackets and No. 10×1 1/4″ wood screws.”
Photos Copyright © 2008 The National Rifle Association, used by permission
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Tags: Reloading Bench, Wood Working
The link for these plans is no longer correct. Is it possible to get an updated link or a copy of the plans?
i would like to get plans for a reloading bench
Hey, I found the plans here; http://www.americanrifleman.org/Webcontent/pdf/2009-7/200971592146-loadingbench.pdf
Looks like a nice bench…
Seeya!
Be forewarned…these plans have errors in the dimensions. Check everything twice before cutting or you’ll be buying more wood.
The bench is a nice design and full of good ideas but don’t rely on the measurements given in the drawings.
I built this bench and am very happy with it. I added a slide-out box drawer in the top of the center section and put the tumbler on a slide-out tray, which makes filling and dumping the tumbler so much easier.
When finished it’s a very heavy piece of furniture so don’t plan to carry it up or down stairs unless you have several buddies available.
Good luck!