The very beginning of a tool set

I sincerely hope that one day i will read this post and laugh, if not heartily, at least a little.

This is the embarrassing post where i lift the skirt and show you exactly what i mean when i say, 'a small collection of tools.'  I just bought a few for a component of the kitchen remodel, and it seems to me that now is the moment to lay it all out and prove that i am, in fact, a rank beginner.

I just bought what I would characterize as a starter set of chisels from footprint in the UK (three chisels, a two-grit oil stone and a honing guide in a crappy plastic case), and a Stanley (UK) rabbet (rebate) plane (the 12-978, to be precise).  I thought about burying these purchases somewhere deeper in this post, but this weekend, i am going to put a wooden sash in a window and attach some home center decorative molding to edge the tile back splash.  I bought these tools because i think i will need them to trim and fit some square (and squared off) boards into some irregular spaces.

Here are most of the rest of my woodworking tools (in descending order of my pride of ownership):
A Stanley 607 jointer plane (ca. 1930, bought recently from Patrick Leach)
A Stanley #4 (also from Patrick Leach, similar vintage)
A Sargent-made (as far as my limited research and knowledge can tell) craftsman-labeled #5 size jack plane.
A Millers falls, 10-inch sweep, ratcheting bit brace.
Then comes the precipitous fall to tools i picked up before i decided to be a wood worker:
An 8-inch circular saw.
A Stanley "fat max" handsaw (home center special, about 26 inches long; it leaves a wider kerf than the circular saw's included all-purpose blade).
A pair of 9-inch clamps.
4 I-beam style 2x4 saw horses that i made myself for a garage shelving project at the last house.
A 24-inch framing square.
A 24-inch level.
A cordless drill with a really cheap set of drill bits, about 1/3 of which i have snapped off.
A metric and imperial socket wrench set.
A mix and match set of screw drivers.

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You get the idea.

I don't have a proper saw, I don't have a bench (more on that soon), I don't have a mallet, i don't have a lot of basic tools, but I'm fired up. I'll build what i can, buy what i have to and slowly start creeping toward competence

- TDD