Been in the new house for almost a year, and I am finally just about finished with the reloading bench. I still have some trim work to do, but other than that it is done. The mounting bases from Inline Fabrication have quick change tops so all of my presses and other reloading gear can be swapped between them, and then hung on the wall when not in use. They are mounted on heavy duty aluminum T slot track sunk into the bench top, so the bases can be moved along the bench or new ones added without drilling any holes in the bench. I got sick of running extension cords to the bench in the old house, so I kind of went for overkill with my outlet setup. Right now the only things plugged into them are the LED lighting on the presses.
The bench is based on the EAA Chapter 1000 worktables that I use as workbenches, but with the legs and bottom shelf set further back for legroom while seated. The legs are anchored to the concrete floor, and the back of the bench is screwed to the wall studs. The bench top is 5/8" baltic birch plywood with a couple coats of clear polyurethane. Only reason I used that was it was the only 5/8" thick plywood I could find locally, to match the thickness of the t-slot tracks screwed to the 3/4" exterior plywood below. I had initially planned on just painting the top, but I couldn't bring myself to put house paint over that nice plywood (the gray paint is leftover from my old house). The trim is poplar painted gloss black... I initially attempted to stain it and then use the clear poly over that, but I couldn't get that to work worth a shit, so I sanded it back down and used the paint. Will probably never try to stain a piece of wood again.
