FAVOURITE TOOLS: Three Pieces of Essential Gear You’ll Love
Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, shares his three essential woodworking hand tools.
Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, shares his three essential woodworking hand tools.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Canada’s Handiest Man, Steve Maxwell, lists the top 6 tools he swears do-it-yourself homeowners will never regret owning for home maintenance.
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…
Steve Maxwell, Canada’s Handiest Man, discovers the wood finish that keeps Canada’s Bluenose II sailboat shining: Helmsman from Minwax.
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.
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,…
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,…