What are the essential hand tools for woodwork?

For what you want to do:

1. Miter Saw

2. Drill w/ drill bit set

3. Screw Drivers (flat blade and Phillips)

4. Combination Square

5. Sand Paper

6. Round/flat combination file or rasp (to smooth the curves)

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My altar tends to be a matrix of crystals, deity images, ritual tools, and Tarot decks, that builds and becomes more cluttered over time. But what is essential? That depends on what I'm doing, so I try to keep it simple and specific to the work at hand. For some rituals, I set up a temporary altar specific to the work I am doing at the time. Is it an act of worship of a particular deity? Then I want to have the image of that deity, a candle of a color appropriate to that deity, a censer, and an offering bowl. If I am scrying, then all I will have on my altar will be the crystal ball or scrying mirror, maybe a few candles, and there will be other candles in the room and incense burning on the main altar. If it is an act of High Ceremonial Magick, then usually I will have the four elemental weapons of the Golden Dawn, or sometimes simply my wand, and my book of conjurations. If I am summoning a spirit, the incense will be in the triangle, not on the altar. With everything, though, I always have my Tarot deck handy, because I like to to a divination before any ritual.

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