Mark W
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My reloading gear gas been packed away since I moved back in August. Between work obligations and getting everything else in order around the house, I haven't had time to dedicate to the man cave / reloading room until now.
My old reloading bench was framed up out of 2 x 4s so I couldn’t get it down into the finished basement without complete disassembly which would have been a real pain even though it was screwed together. I decided to set it up in the garage here I will use it cleaning guns as well as the dirtier parts of brass prep.
I wanted the new bench to be fairly easy to break down and relocate in case I decide to move again in the future. I ended up going with 2” black iron pipe and fittings for the frame. The top is constructed of a couple of 2” x 8” cross pieces with three 2” x 12”s topped of by piece of birch plywood that I stained and urethaned. It turned out super strong and I can break it down to 4 pieces in minutes by removing the lag bolts that attach the top and breaking the two pipe unions that connect the frame pieces.
Here are few pics. I still have to mount my press and I’m going to build some shelves using similar construction with 1” black iron pipe and fittings.



My old reloading bench was framed up out of 2 x 4s so I couldn’t get it down into the finished basement without complete disassembly which would have been a real pain even though it was screwed together. I decided to set it up in the garage here I will use it cleaning guns as well as the dirtier parts of brass prep.
I wanted the new bench to be fairly easy to break down and relocate in case I decide to move again in the future. I ended up going with 2” black iron pipe and fittings for the frame. The top is constructed of a couple of 2” x 8” cross pieces with three 2” x 12”s topped of by piece of birch plywood that I stained and urethaned. It turned out super strong and I can break it down to 4 pieces in minutes by removing the lag bolts that attach the top and breaking the two pipe unions that connect the frame pieces.
Here are few pics. I still have to mount my press and I’m going to build some shelves using similar construction with 1” black iron pipe and fittings.


