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Homemade reloading benchtop material?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1791402" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>Not sure about South Dakota, but I used some seasoned, rough sawed 3"x10" pine (if you can get it, but you could use 2x10 staging planks that are skim-planed just to clean up; southern yellow pine boards. Then squared the edges, doweled the joints with 3/4 inch, oak dowels and glued the joints; roughly 30 inches by 8 feet long. From there I used 2x4s on the underneath side of the bench screwed and glued in a "cross-buck" pattern to make the bench top so it would not buckle. The bench is screwed to the wall with 3/4 inch lag bolts through a ledger board attached to the foundation and attached with 2"x4"x 36 inch long gussets to the foundation wall. I do wish that I had made the bench 9-10 feet longer instead of the 8 feet it is now. It has been on that same wall for 30+ years and thousands of rounds of rifle and thousands of rounds of pistol ammunition, still as good as the day it was put up. I'm thinking that I might belt sand the top and put a layer of white formica on the top surface just to spruce/brighten up the bench a bit; but, nothing wrong with the polyurethane finish on it now.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1791402, member: 69192"] Not sure about South Dakota, but I used some seasoned, rough sawed 3"x10" pine (if you can get it, but you could use 2x10 staging planks that are skim-planed just to clean up; southern yellow pine boards. Then squared the edges, doweled the joints with 3/4 inch, oak dowels and glued the joints; roughly 30 inches by 8 feet long. From there I used 2x4s on the underneath side of the bench screwed and glued in a "cross-buck" pattern to make the bench top so it would not buckle. The bench is screwed to the wall with 3/4 inch lag bolts through a ledger board attached to the foundation and attached with 2"x4"x 36 inch long gussets to the foundation wall. I do wish that I had made the bench 9-10 feet longer instead of the 8 feet it is now. It has been on that same wall for 30+ years and thousands of rounds of rifle and thousands of rounds of pistol ammunition, still as good as the day it was put up. I'm thinking that I might belt sand the top and put a layer of white formica on the top surface just to spruce/brighten up the bench a bit; but, nothing wrong with the polyurethane finish on it now. [/QUOTE]
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