I would not part with any of my "precious" tools except for a handful that were purchasing mistakes. Mistakes in the sense that what I thought a necessity, turned out that I would learn later to do in a different (better) way, or tool so poorly made (in China of course) that were not functional even after much fiddling in an attempt to improve them.
The moral of the story is: do not be in a hurry to tool up fancy.
Concentrate on basic, lean toward quality and let the need of the project lead your tool purchase.
I was driven by the idea that I wanted to have a tool/fixture before the need arise, in retrospect that was a poor philosophy, any tool is no more that 3 day away, stop the project, wait, relax and make some useful tool/gadget, organize your space which is always inadequate while you wait for the part to arrive.