About Olive Weekly

Olive Weekly is an independent informational site about beginner woodworking and joinery, written for readers in Canada. The articles focus on hand tools, basic wood joints, and safe workshop practices, and they are kept deliberately narrow so each one stays useful rather than broad.

What we publish

The content is reference material: explanations of what tools do, how common joints carry load, and the habits that keep a small workshop safe. Articles are reviewed and dated so readers can see when each was last updated.

Sources and accuracy

Where the articles point to safety or material standards, they link to public, authoritative sources such as the Canadian Centre for Occupational Health and Safety and the Canadian Wood Council. Where a precise figure is not available from a reliable source, the text uses neutral language rather than an invented number.

Images

Photographs are sourced from Wikimedia Commons under Creative Commons licences and credited to their contributors.

Contact

Questions and corrections can be sent to editor@oliveweekly.org. The site is based in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada.