The way I acquired an enviable set of chisels will amaze you. For now, suffice to write that I have an amazing set.
What else would you need or want for building with wood? How about a nice luthier table. You can look up the title: How to build a luthier bench, at eHow. Yeap, one of them is mine. I built a nice luthier bench in 1993 when I was restoring the back on a Spanish flamenco guitar that I had bought in Granada, Spain, many years before. I realized I needed a solid workspace, so I set about creating one with scraps of lumber from a local home improvement store (the orange one).
My friend, Ken, gave me some kerfing and two unmatched pieces of maple (though they did not match they were beautiful pieces of wood). He told me how to approach the tasks ahead: take the back off of the guitar and remove the old kerfing. I needed to glue the two pieces of maple side by side and then outline my pattern. Cut the back and add bracing. There's more to the picture. The back was ruined by variations in temperature while the guitar lived in Portland, Oregon for about 6 months. Unfortunately, my sisters put the guitar in their chapel (a solarium style porch turned into a chapel)in their Laurelhurst house.
Today I do not have the bench anymore because I gave it to a pal who was doing some work up at a camp that I directed for a short time. I did get a lot of use out of it before giving it away (I had to move and really didn't have the room for it in the new place... a whole other story).