Funny you say that. I bought the wood last week to use with my 2x4 Basics bench kit. I bought it before I bought this current bench...but I liked this one better. I’ll be starting on the other bench shortly...if it warms up a bit. I’ll probably have to heat the garage somehow on work on it. At least for cutting the lumber.
Actually...the room was already painted...and my plan to do a lot more prep work, including new pain, fell through following a letter from the Social Security Administration. In a nutshell It said, “Hi! Planning on spending any money on reloading equipment and supplies? Guess again!” Luckily, I had this bench kit waiting on the room. So I cleaned and refinished the floor and decided to live with orange for a while, out my bench up so I could finally unbox my All American 8 Turret. Now spending the time getting used to it, and trying to organize for greater efficiency!
I have very little time with it, and still getting a feel for it. Decapping cases is really easy. Sizing 9mm very little effort. Surprisingly, I’m finding priming on the press to be pretty smooth. My first 50 cases were nearly enough trouble to make me quit. Primers were coming out cup side up...how did they turn around in the tube??? Roughly 20 primers of 50 had to be turned over...which is not easy on this press. Turned out I was using the large primer tube with small primers. The 2nd attempt, using the proper small tube was smooth. I started getting a decent rhythm.
