Like I said, all depends on budget and expectations. For example, you can buy fancy Estwing hammer for 80-100$. Looks great, well balanced in the hand, will drive nails into wood with no problem. But I'll take a basic stanley hammer with fibreglass handle worth 10$ and do exactly the same job with it. If you consider small-scale diy, you don't need anything fancy.
Like I said before, better to invest in good hardware- mods, tanks, wire, wick, batteries etc. If you build and test coils daily on a large scale, if you're crazy about building, cool, get something fancy. But if you rewick once a week and change coils once a month in a few tanks, spending a fortune on tools that basically don't differ much from cheap alternatives is an overkill. That's how I see it