Learn about the fasteners that are responsible for holding just about everything in our homes together. Here's how to ...

The company has mastered the unenviable challenge of successfully making square drive screws accessible and appealing to readers. The front cover — a caricature of cabinetmaker Jimbo McFeely (who ...

Drive: The shape of the mechanism used to install and remove screws.Some of the most common drive shapes are cross-head, square, star, slotted and hex socket. Head: The top of the screw, which ...

Even better is the Robertson, or square-drive screw--a favorite of professional woodworkers. Some screws come with a combination Phillips/Robertson head.

The Robertson square-drive: a screw topped with a square hole ready to receive its matching hand driver. A thing of beauty for Canadian woodworkers because that recessed square won't let you slip out.

This changed in 1908, when Canadian P.L. Robertson patented the “first recess-drive type fastener practical for production usage,” a recessed square-drive screw that bears his name.