Miter saw

Well, of course, for woodworking specifically, the tools to process the wood is important.

I started off with consumer grade tools from Home Depot, Lowe's, Ryobi, Chop Saw, and All of those brands do all of those.

But those only go so far.

Once you go into the higher level of work where you need to hold really tight dimensions and come up with very rigid specs, then you need to invest in higher quality tools.