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This month and continuing next month I will be showing you the kind of advice I give to students who are about to join our workshop on a one-year course in cabinet making:Most of us have a bag of tools rattling around somewhere in the garage and by all means bring those with you but you will need to spend quite a lot of money on hand tools. We usually estimate a tool budget for a young cabinet maker of between £600 and a £1000 to get you going. You may spend a bit more than this and you certainly won't spend less than this. My general advice is to buy as few tools as possible choose them well in the first place and learn to use them with confidence. There are so many expensive tools out there that you do not need that will only clutter up your work space and slow you down .