Custom loading blocks

Rifleman97

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Making some beautiful looking loading blocks and other reloading organization blocks to make your reloading room as good looking as inside your gun gun safe!

Here’s an example of one I’ve made for myself. I prefer flat loading blocks but I can also make stadium style, although stadium style will not have the through holes to make cleaning spilled powder easier. Can make flat ones with or without through holes as well.




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Options:

• Flat or stadium
• Through hole or no through hole
• closed pore or open pore lacquer finish, or open pore oil finish
• wood of your choice. I always have claro walnut in stock but have a source for English walnut, maple, and other exotic woods. Oily exotics have an up charge both for wood and for finishing, as it takes a lot of prep to get finish to stick to them
•Natural bottom or rubber feet
• Extra space on side for setting pens or powder dispenser as pictured on the one I made for myself
• Any number of cartridge holes, and can do an additional offset one for dummy rounds for more quickly setting up your seater die for the bullet you’re currently loading for
• Laser engraving a label such as 7x57

Other options can be special request. A basic maple 50 round .473 bolt face with no extras (no through holes) starts at $40 plus shipping. Claro walnut starts at $50 and goes up with extras. I’ll give a discount if you provide the wood, cutoffs from your rifle stock blank? I can glue them together and make a matching loading block.

I’m honest about pricing so if you’ve got any requests for quotes you can send them here and I’ll respond here. I have a full woodworking shop so I can even do stain matching to an extent if you want a more traditional red hue or a more modern natural and clear finish.

On the one I made for myself it was one grade above standard Claro wood, with red mahogany toner, the top is closed pore lacquer finish and the bottom is open pore lacquer (to spend less time on the part that gets the most beat up) with through holes and extra space for pen on the bottom and extra space for funnel on the side, with a beveled handle for more easily picking it up.

For a copy of this exact block I would charge $60 plus shipping.

Oh also I can do any bolt face, and varied thickness to customers preference. If it’s a cartridge I don’t have on hand to test, I will require accurate measurements of the casing at either the head (if rimmed or rimless) or at the thickest part of the casing (if belted, or rebated rim).

Turnaround time is generally a couple weeks unless I have to source exotic or out of stock woods, and I’ll communicate with you as to what I have in stock at the time and what needs to be sourced. I can also accept wood you send me if there’s any you have with sentimental value.

Thanks for reading! I don’t expect to sell many but worth a shot, I’m tired of seeing reloading rooms full of plastic haha
 
Heck, I’ll give a couple a whirl. And some pretty Claro or English walnut sounds nice, like the first photo would work for my purposes.

I’ll shoot you a PM to iron out specifics.

Will
 
I would have a desire for 450NE and 450-400. Maybe even 416 Rigby and 375 H&H
Doc…what do you mean you would desire a 450NE AND a 450-400? The poor man is running crazy to fill all our fancy loading block desires, you have to be efficient like that Seinfeld episode of ordering from the Soup Nazi.

Just say you want 2 for the 450NE. (Case heads are essentially the same size, just have to use different shell holders because the rim thickness is greater on the 450/400. But kinda like elk not knowing how many feet a horse has, the loading block holes don’t care how thick the rim is, only how wide. lol.

You should get a 375 Flange too. Someday, might be two years yet, but some day you’ll need one I bet.
 
I would have a desire for 450NE and 450-400. Maybe even 416 Rigby and 375 H&H
This will have to be the last order for this batch, any new orders after this will have to wait a couple weeks for me to get the first batch out before I start on the next batch and will be about a month out fulfillment time from today. Thank you everyone so much for the interest!




Doc…what do you mean you would desire a 450NE AND a 450-400? The poor man is running crazy to fill all our fancy loading block desires, you have to be efficient like that Seinfeld episode of ordering from the Soup Nazi. .
This made me laugh out loud thanks Will
 
Doc…what do you mean you would desire a 450NE AND a 450-400? The poor man is running crazy to fill all our fancy loading block desires, you have to be efficient like that Seinfeld episode of ordering from the Soup Nazi.

Just say you want 2 for the 450NE. (Case heads are essentially the same size, just have to use different shell holders because the rim thickness is greater on the 450/400. But kinda like elk not knowing how many feet a horse has, the loading block holes don’t care how thick the rim is, only how wide. lol.

You should get a 375 Flange too. Someday, might be two years yet, but some day you’ll need one I bet.
Will:
That's what happens when a friend comes by with a new Bourbon "that you just have to try"!
My brain went to mush with my reply but this morning markets are up and my brain is clear so
Rifleman97 is getting an order for five blocks and yes one in 375 Flange! And my buddy is getting one for the Bourbon that was too good!
 

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