Calipers; dial or digital? And at what price for either?
As a retired electronix instrument calibrator/repairman I have an embedded distrust of electronic stuff so I always stuck to dial or vernier calipers. Several years back I was a long way from home and needed a caliper, quick. So I'm off to Harbor Freight where they had a "sale" on their 6" digital calipers for $10. I said what the heck and I got one; to my surprise, it quickly became my favorite. Years later, it's still working fine but I finally bought another for back-up when it fails. I love well made precision tools but, considering the benefit/cost differences, I'll live with reality.
What I love most about the digital calipers is the lack of an exposed, fine tooth rack gear that collects debris and can be hard to safely clear. Digitals have no such gear and are fully as accurate as my dials ... and much easier to read than my treasured very accurate old Swiss vernier caliper.
Remembering how reluctant I was to spend I needed to equip myself with the basics for .30-06 and .30 Carbine when I ordered my first press and dies in '65, I cannot in good faith recommend a noob buy professional grade machinist tools for reloading. I tell them to buy a HF caliper first and then, if/when it finally fails, buy what they really want and maybe can more easily afford.
Fellows, the world we grew up in is gone and we'll never totally regain it, only old folk can even remember it. I would like to buy everything I need made in USA but ... that's nearly impossible today, at any price. "Liberal" politicians have "helped" us so much and for so long that much of our old economic foundation has withered and died forever.
Check the "Made in xxx" labels on your stuff; cell (or any other type) telephone, radio, TV, computer, copier/printer, clocks and watches, GPS, bulbs and light fixtures, nuts/bolts/screws, kitchen appliances, hand and power tools (including brands with trusted U.S. names!), shoes, clothes, outboard motors, ballistic chronograph, etc. It'll probably make you want to weep!