Saul Griffith had an article in Make Magazine once that went over some
tools, from essential to only-somewhat-useful, that would be nice to
have in a shop or lab fitted to make just about anything. He jokingly
said it was for launching your own space program.
pdf: http://www.saulgriffith.com/Make/Make03.pdf
So I spent some time today typing it up into a more usable format and
added it to the skdb repository. Have fun with it:
http://adl.serveftp.org/skdb/doc/BOMs/ultimate-tool-buying-guide.yaml
I'm not really sure what level of priority the heisseschneider was
supposed to have.