Mike Irwin
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The work area isn't all that big, but it's just freaking head and shoulders above what I had before. The bench sits where the bookshelf used to sit, only the book shelf was about 2/3rs as wide as the top I now have, so you can imagine I didn't have a lot of room.
I mounted the shelves yesterday. I went overboard on the hardware, but I figured I'd be storing my bullets up there, and we all know how heavy bullets get.
I have one more shelf to cut, and I'm probably going to add a shell in the knee area under the top.
I also want to mount a light under the shelf on the bottom. I've got a 4 foot fluorescent over top of me, which gives good general light, but it's a little too far back and I cast a shadow, and the back of the workspace is kind of dark.
The back room where this is located isn't all that big, and it's kind of chopped up, so I don't have a lot of usable room, unfortunately. Just out of sight on the right are the air handler for central heating and cooling and the water heater. If I ever have to replace the water heater, I'll have to disassemble the bench.
I do need to get slightly higher stool. I thought I was mounting the press high enough that I could operate it while standing (my preferred method of loading) but no go. I have to sit, and the chair that's there is just a little too low.
I'm now thinking of some sort of bench-top priming mechanism...