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[Spey]

My usual dealio is to drop both axes and picks, and bring along 2 copper, 1 bismuthinite, and 1 cassiterite ore with enough fuel for 9 smelt/metalsmithing jobs. That gives me 4 bars of bismuth bronze which I usually turn into 2 picks, an axe and a chain (first for anti kobold watch at the front door of my temporary accomodation, later for my first well in the main fortress)

I keep my anvil, and most embarks I still end up having spare points that I blow on even more turtles (21 is what i would usually bring). I also have enough food and booze barrels to last longer than it takes to get food/booze industry up and running. I honestly wouldnt know what to spend that 1000 points on....

[Eatnobles4breakfast]

Personaly, i agree with Spey, with 1000 points i just get like 25 war dogs...lol
i remove an axe usualy, and replace all plump helmets with the seeds, which cost less, an put alot of extra points to meat and booze...
It works for me...!

[Kohana]

I generally go real minimalist when taking stuff including on the skills.  One proficient miner and a proficient clothier/weaver.  I drop everything but one copper pick.  Get enough turtle to last until fall, enough booze for a few drinks to keep full speed for awhile or enough to get until fall if no drinkable water is present on the map, 5 or so of every seed, 2 dogs , 2 cats, about 30 logs.  Then spend the rest of the points on giant cave spider thread.  Any remaining after that goes into pig tail thread or extra logs.

I have the clothier/weaver weave all the thread and make clothing that comes in pairs so I get 2 items for every thread.  The items range from ~1.2k to ~2k generally with a few 4k ones if I'm lucky.  Once fall comes around I can easily afford any axes and anvils and anything I want for the next year off the initial finished goods made from the threads.  Plus with all that value right away I expand my workforce very fast to get the fort moving along quickly.

Since early on you only need 7 beds and a few bins to keep things neat and tidy there is no need for the axe for woodcutting anyway.  You shouldn't really need more wood until after you've had a trade caravan come and some migrants and with the value you get by dropping everything but what you need you can have all you want and more by fall.

[tp12]

i dont care at all what i spend the points at... i usually just embark right away.
got axes picks an anvil.. so what i dont get i just make on site.

[betamax]

Who needs two axes anyway? You only really need one, and that only costs 300

[Gnomechomsky]

Who needs two axes anyway? You only really need one, and that only costs 300

Yeah, I never embark with more than one woodcutter.  For the amount of wood I use, it makes no sense to devote two dwarves to logging when the second could be doing something more useful.

[KrataLightblade]

Who needs two axes anyway?

That depends, you coudl always have an Insta-Military with an extra Axedwarf.

Not saying it's a huge thing, but still, it's an option.