[rfrey]

I'm probably just reading this into your comment, but the challenging tone makes it seem like you think OP is pretty misguided... like there's no information to be had here.

But isn't an interest in tools pretty common in most crafts/trades? If I were hiring a woodworker for my cabinet shop, I'd probably ask about favourite tools. I wouldn't actually care if they talked about how a bandsaw beats a tablesaw every time, or launched into a sermon about shopmade wooden handplanes versus metal monstrosities. It's the presence of an opinion at all that matters.

edit: I don't actually have a cabinet shop. :(

[twic]

Tools, yes. But seeing editors and keyboards as the tools indicates that someone is operating at a pretty low level of abstraction. If you asked a civil engineer what their favourite tool for designing bridges over deep valleys was, and they said "a Rotring isograph" [1] rather than "parabolic arches", would you be impressed?

[1] http://www.cultpens.com/i/q/RT04273/rotring-isograph-technic...