There are lots of hobbiest wood/metal workers here in the US. I see homemade forges and casting furnaces, people who have assembled their own lathes and all the way up to the ones who make fine furniture with hand tool dovetail saws, chisels, etc. See if you can figure out how to fire some bricks made from local mud/clay/whatever then you can stack bricks to make a furnace to heat metal to start makeing some tools.
There is also the possibility of powered tools if you have a running stream to power a waterwheel.