The tools for working wood are as varied as the folks who do the work. Pick up any book about tools and you will find recommendations for a specific list of tools that THEY feel are the best tools to outfit a shop with. Each recommendation is meant well and given in good faith. My premise is YOU are the only one who can decide what will work best for you and what you intend to do. Over many years I have pretty much tried all the various combinations and depending on what I was building at the time, they all worked. What I did take note of was a handful of stand-bys that I always used, regardless of what I was building at the time.