25 Best Gifts for Guitar Players: Your Ultimate List

Every guitarist should learn how to maintain their guitars. For one thing, a set up costs $50 when done at the local guitar shop, which are increasingly harder to find in the first place. For another, regular maintenence keeps guitars in better shape overall and can protect an investment in a really nice guitar. Lastly, setting up your own guitar means you can set everything to your exact preferences.

To accomplish all that, a few tools go a long way. This Ernie Ball toolkit provides those tools, including a variety of hex tools, a ruler, a screwdriver, wirecutters, a string winder, cleaning wipes, and a polish cloth. That’s everything you need for intonation and string height adjustments and basic string changes and cleaning.

To this, you might consider adding the Dunlop System 65 cleaning system, but that is certainly optiona.