to answer directy:
I started out with a Sunrise vise, and our club still uses them and the tools for the Beginners' Class - as others have mentioned. I still use their dubbing twister, hackle guard, ceramic bobbins, and best of all - their dubbing rake (it did need to be sharpened, but so what). All my tools do the job, and fortunately some of them (Sunrise) didn't cost much - although some of them did.