A chronograph is a nice tool to have, but it' s on my long list of tools I can live without. Besides, the club' s chronograph lives at my house.

I would like to have a good benchtop press because I really don' t fully trust those $35 pocket presses. So, I' ve got a good bit of pucker factor going on when I' m changing out strings and making adjustments to my string/cable lengths. The portables have those cables that get in the way also. The benchtop press is way better, all around. I' ll probably continue to live without one though, and go on dealing with tangled cables and the pucker factor. Really, I can do pretty much anything I need to do with a portable EXCEPT completely disassembling a bow. That' s one thing you really need a full blown press to do.

One tool that is very important to have and is very cheap to make is a drawlength measuring stick. Just get a full length arrow shaft, install a nock, measure out 20" or so from the bottom of the string groove and mark it every half inch out to the end. Or quarter inch if you' re highly industrious.