I would. Here's one that's apparently decent for the price https://smile.amazon.com/ANBES-Soldering-Iron-Kit-Electronics/dp/B06XZ31W3M (I have no idea if it actually is). And it comes with a bit of solder, extra tips, and a desoldering pump which would be useful.

Thanks for the info, I actually have a roll of 37/63 solder somewhere around here and I have a heat adjustable soldering iron..but I feel like it is a piece of junk? This is the kit that I bought a while back so I should have most of the things you mentioned.

https://www.amazon.com/ANBES-Soldering-Iron-Kit-Electronics/dp/B06XZ31W3M?ref_=ast_sto_dp

I also bought a helping hands tool but I haven't soldered anything since I bought it. I have high hopes for it though because it's extremely frustrating to solder without it. I had to fix some broken pigtail connectors on a car. While it worked in a pinch, the solder job was ugly as hell and thick/globby. I will have to practice a bunch before I actually try to make a cable.

I got this soldering iron kit last summer and it working well enough, I'm still really bad at soldering though, I need to practice more, here is a link to a logic analyzer that Ben eater links on his website on one of the 8 bit computer pages

In terms of the 6502 upgrades, I'd recommend for sure doing the 6551 serial upgrade early on, it's pretty helpful

This was the cheap one I started out with. While almost everything in that kit is really cheap, the iron itself was actually really good. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XZ31W3M/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_95TqFbJ6RZ1BR

I "upgraded" to the Weller WE1010 because everyone seems to praise it. Its not much better and I regret it. The only things nice about it is that it heats up a few seconds faster and you can see when it's actually at temperature. Outside of that, I find it even more difficult to solder with than the cheap Amazon one. The TS100 is interesting to me thoughand I may get it eventually.. I still get out the other one every now and then when I get frustrated at this one.