My recommendation is to take your time get lots of advice, look at pics form a general idea as to what you need and to a lesser extent what you want . After that go real slow and build one station/area at a time and use it for several months before building the next section/area .
I had a nice gun room before giving my son my house . It changed a lot over the years and thank god I went slow because it would have cost twice as much to build had I built the whole thing out at once only to need to make larger storage areas , shelves deeper or less deep , not enough space between them to fit most used items or worse to much space waisting areas .
In my old gun room I had two old oak desk's that I used for reloading . Large heavy lag bolted to wall and floor ( SOLID ) !!!! When I moved I no longer had the room for the desks so I built a custom bench and shelf area in a pantry. Very nice but a tenth the size if that . Biggest mistake I made with the new area was using standard plywood for the top of the bench . Way to soft in general, work fine but dings easy creating routs for your pen to bounce in and out of while you write . So I get this area finish beautifully and have to completely resurface the bench . Thats just one of several small things I wished I had done or not done because things change , new tools or presses get bought and they don’t have a place and things need to be moved to make room .
Best thing I did and it wasn’t even on purpose was build a small shelf about 16” above the bench about half the depth of the rest . I use it for my scale/s and gauges . Mostly for my beam scale though . It’s up and out of the way of the main bench and sit right about eye height because I sit when I reload ( remember I’m used to sitting at those desks )
Anyways , my point is to go slow . Don’t try to make the whole thing at once because it’s unlikely you will build what you ultimately will need later . unless you’ve been reloading for a long time and already have a reloading room that works well and you plan to make something similar only better .
I had a nice gun room before giving my son my house . It changed a lot over the years and thank god I went slow because it would have cost twice as much to build had I built the whole thing out at once only to need to make larger storage areas , shelves deeper or less deep , not enough space between them to fit most used items or worse to much space waisting areas .
In my old gun room I had two old oak desk's that I used for reloading . Large heavy lag bolted to wall and floor ( SOLID ) !!!! When I moved I no longer had the room for the desks so I built a custom bench and shelf area in a pantry. Very nice but a tenth the size if that . Biggest mistake I made with the new area was using standard plywood for the top of the bench . Way to soft in general, work fine but dings easy creating routs for your pen to bounce in and out of while you write . So I get this area finish beautifully and have to completely resurface the bench . Thats just one of several small things I wished I had done or not done because things change , new tools or presses get bought and they don’t have a place and things need to be moved to make room .
Best thing I did and it wasn’t even on purpose was build a small shelf about 16” above the bench about half the depth of the rest . I use it for my scale/s and gauges . Mostly for my beam scale though . It’s up and out of the way of the main bench and sit right about eye height because I sit when I reload ( remember I’m used to sitting at those desks )
Anyways , my point is to go slow . Don’t try to make the whole thing at once because it’s unlikely you will build what you ultimately will need later . unless you’ve been reloading for a long time and already have a reloading room that works well and you plan to make something similar only better .
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