About

Who publishes this, and what it will not do

Who publishes it

Precious Handyman is independently published and edited by Zane Hitchcox. It is a small publication, not a media company: one editor, a sources ledger, and a standing rule that a claim without a citation gets rewritten or cut.

This is not the old site

From about 2020 to 2022, this domain hosted an affiliate review blog — "top 5" product roundups with store links. That site is gone, its owner is not involved here, and none of its text has been reused. The current site is a fresh publication under new ownership that happens to live at the same address. If you arrived from an old link, the address you followed either now holds a new guide on the same subject or points you to the closest thing we actually cover.

We review nothing we don't have evidence for

We do not run a test lab. Nobody here will tell you how a tool felt in the hand, how it held up over six months, or how it performed in a torture test we never ran — because we didn't do those things, and writing as if we did would be a lie. What we do instead is audit the published record: manufacturer spec sheets, binding safety standards, and independent testing by named organizations and reviewers, each cited where the claim appears. Where the published record is thin, the guide says so out loud in a "what the evidence doesn't cover" section rather than papering over the gap. The full method is on How We Source.

No affiliate links

There are no affiliate links on this site and no sponsored placements. Nothing here earns a commission when you buy. If the site ever carries revenue, it will be ordinary display advertising, clearly separate from editorial content, and this page will say so.

Corrections

If a number here disagrees with its cited source, the site is wrong and gets fixed. Write to us via the contact page; corrections are noted on the affected page with the date.