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WORKSHOP: Tips for Choosing & Maintaining a Thickness Planer

BySteve Maxwell July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 Reading Time: 7 minutes

There are big reasons a woodworking thickness planer is so useful in the home shop. Not to be confused with a jointer, thickness planer (also sometimes just called “planers”) are a class of stationary power tool designed to smooth the…

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METALWORKING: See The Simplest, Easiest Welding Process in Action

BySteve Maxwell July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Have you ever wanted to weld? It’s a powerful home workshop skill and MIG welding is the simplest of all welding processes to learn. I weld all the time here in my home shop and I can’t begin to count…

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WORKBENCH PLANS: Download First-Class Design & Instructions for Free

BySteve Maxwell July 11, 2025July 11, 2025 Reading Time: 4 minutes

If you don’t have a workbench somewhere around your home, you should change that. You’ll never find a simpler, more economical source of mental health and household well-being. Having a proper place to fix and make things is so helpful….

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PHILOSOPHY: Leaving a Legacy With Your Handiwork
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PHILOSOPHY: Leaving a Legacy With Your Handiwork

BySteve Maxwell July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes

Leonard Lee, famous Canadian and founder of Lee Valley Tools, died on July 7, 2016 and when that happened it got me thinking. Mr. Lee improved the lives of a lot of people with the business he started and the…

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WOODWORKING: Assess The Ends of Boards, Not Just the Face
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WOODWORKING: Assess The Ends of Boards, Not Just the Face

BySteve Maxwell July 8, 2025July 9, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

I’ve noticed that most woodworkers start assessing a board by looking at its face, but if this is where your investigations end, you’re missing out on insights that can lead to a lot of creative control and better woodworking. That’s…

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Close-up of metal piece with MIG tack weld.
Workshop

METALWORKING: Simple Plug Weld Joins Metal Invisibly

BySteve Maxwell July 8, 2025July 8, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Plug welds offer a simple way of joining two pieces of metal when you don’t want a visible weld bead. You can see a plug weld happening in the video above. There are several circumstances where this approach makes a lot…

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Man building a wooden stool in workshop.
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WOODWORKING: This Footstool Project Teaches the Basics

BySteve Maxwell July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 Reading Time: 6 minutes

Are you interested in learning to work with wood? You’ve come to the right place. The best way to make that happen is to practice doing things the right way, and that’s what you’ll begin to learn here, with the…

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ANCHORING TO CONCRETE: Powder-Actuated Tools Make It Easy

BySteve Maxwell July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 Reading Time: 4 minutes

Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, informs homeowners of the benefits of powder-actuated tools (PATs), especially for basement renovations.

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ROUTER PITFALLS TO AVOID: Watch Out for These Five Big Ones

BySteve Maxwell July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, provides 5 pitfalls woodworkers should avoid when working with routers.

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Home Interiors Workshop

GOT WONKY CABINET DOORS? Adjust Or Replace Those Bad European Hinges

BySteve Maxwell July 5, 2025July 5, 2025 Reading Time: 4 minutes

From everything I see, modern kitchen and bathroom cabinet doors in many homes are in bad shape. It’s mostly because of faulty European-style hinges. Doors sag, they hit each other, or they do a funny flip-flop when you move them,…

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Cozy living room with wooden beams and staircase.
Home Exteriors Workshop

EASIER TIMBER FRAMING: Canadian Hardware Brings Big Wood Into View

BySteve Maxwell July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, explains an alternative lumber framing method called Timberlinx.

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Painting carved letters on wooden surface.
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WOOD CARVING: How to Create Incised Letters & Numbers By Hand

BySteve Maxwell July 2, 2025July 2, 2025 Reading Time: 7 minutes

It’s funny what sticks with you from childhood. One of my earliest woodworking memories is of my grandfather using a jack knife to carve Roman numerals into the edges of wooden window sashes and their matching storm windows at the…

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