I built 45 guitars before I owned a bandsaw or a table saw, and about 75 before I got a thickness sander. My first power tool was a sabersaw, followed by a Delta 690 router. I got my earliest bandsaw skills by being friendly with the local community college woodworking department.
A joining plane, a Stanley 9 1/2 plane, and a couple of chisels (1/4 and 3/4), and a serious scraper (I am currently in love with my Carruth StewMac scraper) can do almost everything important. Especially if you have the sabersaw and router.
Everything else is pretty much just convenient.
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