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FAVOURITE TOOLS: Three Pieces of Essential Gear You’ll Love
Workshop

FAVOURITE TOOLS: Three Pieces of Essential Gear You’ll Love

BySteve Maxwell May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, shares his three essential woodworking hand tools.

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Outdoors Workshop

WORKSHOP: How to Revive Old Hardware & Tools

BySteve Maxwell May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Question: What’s the best way to clean rust and dirt off of an old door lock? It’s seized and the outside is rusty right now, but it looks like a nice old lock with potential. Answer: Good for you for…

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Oregon PowerSharp Saw Chain Sharpener
Home Exteriors Workshop

OREGON CHAINSAW SHARPENER: A Fast & Effective Option

BySteve Maxwell May 20, 2025May 20, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Over the decades I’ve seen various chainsaw sharpening systems in action, but the one I want to tell you here is the fastest I’ve seen. It’s meant to automatically  sharpen a saw chain while the saw runs (no files or…

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Spade bit and wooden plugs on deck
Workshop

“What’s the Best Way to Hide Screw Heads in Woodworking Projects?”

BySteve Maxwell May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Video Watch Time = 4 1/2 minutes There are several ways to cover screw heads so they look nice in fancy woodworking projects, but the best I know of involves tapered wooden plugs filling counterbored holes. A small, inexpensive Canadian…

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Workshop

CAP STAPLERS: The Best Way to Secure Building Wrap and More

BySteve Maxwell May 16, 2025May 16, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Need to secure building wrap or other fabric-type materials? You can’t do better than a cap stapler. Shooting a staple and a plastic cap washer, this is the fastest and best way to secure and of plastic or cloth. Click…

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Person tracing boomerang shape on wood
Outdoors Workshop

BUILD A BOOMERANG: Download Free Plans & Instructions

BySteve Maxwell May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Homemade boomerangs are the kind of toy that adds a lot of extra fun to an afternoon, both in the making and the throwing. You need to be careful throwing one (lots of open space required), but making a boomerang…

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Socket Set
Workshop

SIX MUST-HAVE HAND TOOLS: Invest in These Pliers & Wrenches & You’ll Be More Capable

BySteve Maxwell May 13, 2025May 13, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Canada’s Handiest Man, Steve Maxwell, lists the top 6 tools he swears do-it-yourself homeowners will never regret owning for home maintenance.

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How to Make DIY Unique Furniture for Your House

BySteve Maxwell May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

Why buy new furniture that everybody else has when you can make your own highly individual pieces? Furthermore, making your own furniture can often be more environmentally friendly than purchasing items that are manufactured and transported from overseas. So, here’s…

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Bluenose II in Nova Scotia harbour view
Home Interiors Workshop

WOOD FINISHING: Famous Sailing Ship Proving Ground for Age Old Wood Finish

BySteve Maxwell May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 Reading Time: 3 minutes

Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, discovers the wood finish that keeps Canada’s Bluenose II sailboat shining: Helmsman from Minwax.

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Drill bit sets with drill and person's hand.
Workshop

WORKSHOP VIDEO: Understanding Drill Bits & Driver Bits

BySteve Maxwell May 10, 2025May 10, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

Get the most out of your drill with the right kind of things to put into it. This video comes from my online course WOODWORKING FOR BEGINNERS.

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Man using bandsaw to cut wood close-up.
Workshop

WOODWORKING: Bandsaw Your Own Real Boards From Small Logs

BySteve Maxwell May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 Reading Time: 5 minutes

It’s easy to look past the obvious fact that lumber comes from logs, but once you start thinking this way, interesting things can happen.  It’s surprisingly easy to mill short, small logs into furniture-grade boards, right in your own workshop,…

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Green metal box on farm tractor with arrow
Lifestyle Workshop

METALWORKING: Build a Tractor Toolbox From An Ammunition Box

BySteve Maxwell May 7, 2025May 7, 2025 Reading Time: 1 minute

I recently bought a new-to-me tractor and it did have any handy place to put a toolbox. But a little time in the shop with some 1/4″ x 2″ flat bar mild steel, and some John Deere green spray paint,…

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