I’m very new to woodworking and I’m focusing on learning how to use hand tools. I’m slowly acquiring more tools and setting up my workshop, but I just know that there will be something super useful that I haven’t thought about, and won’t realise that I need it until I actually need it.
What items can you just not live without in your shop?
A sturdy bench is a good call. Hard to do much without a good bench.
For rasps the Shinto comes highly recommended. Otherwise hand stitched rasps are supposedly the best but also cost the most.