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From what I've seen, Ice Toolz are fairly low end. You should really be asking yourself how often you'll be using it, and how often it'll be 'mission critical'. If you think it's something you'll use twice in 10 years, then go cheap. If you need this thing to perform everyday, or every week -- you're going to want to find the best piece of kit you can afford.
Anyway, this is what I consider whenever buying tools. I'd rather just get the job done by someone else if I think the investment in a tool isn't going to pay for itself. In an ideal world the 'teach a man to fish' thing would apply, but there are some jobs that barely ever come up and I'd have to say that reaming/facing a head tube might be one of them. Or maybe I'm a mere plebeian who has not but dipped his toe in the ocean of bike mechanicking.