But Melissa, starting with a simple "refinish" leads to "adjustments" which ultimately leads to "modifications" which leads "repairs," and of course then to building your own.

Eventually, you'll NEED those tools (and a bunch more), and it would be a shame to have your dreams of being truly creative hindered by the need to get them all at once. You NEED to accumulate them over some time, in anticipation.

(Of course I have nearly all the tools. I just can't afford a decent piece of wood to use them all on.)

John