You can never have enough tools. The more tools you have at your disposal, the more options you have for constructing your job. Just the other day, Matt was at The Home Depot considering what tools were missing from his collection tools that would make his life easier. You're probably expecting me to cleverly relate this to using Illustrator's tools, but I really wasn't planning to. I just wanted to talk about our fascination with power tools and the tools we hope to get someday. In fact, just in case you're feeling generous, I can happily provide our wish list of dream tools. Meanwhile, I guess we'll have to make do with this collection of tips on using Illustrator's tools to create stuff (as I imagine, I can hear the sweet sound of a radial saw and smell the aroma of freshly cut pine).