Gifts for Guitar Players

We have taken it upon ourselves to inform the wider community about the best gift ideas for guitar players, to help save our fellow guitarists from receiving awkward, if not boring presents. If you are among the kindhearted individuals that want to surprise someone who plays a guitar, our carefully selected gift items will make sure the lucky person will take your kind gesture to heart. If you're looking for a beginner instrument, then check out our Cheap Electric Guitar Roundup.

You can click on any of the products below to see the latest price and reviews at Amazon.com - and if you like you can order them straight away and even have them gift wrapped for you! If you are also looking gift ideas for non-guitarists then you might like to check out these gifts for musicians.

Featured Guitarist Gift

Fender Runaway Feedback Pedal

This is a great looking and professional sounding acoustic guitar, that comes at a novice price tag. Its affordability makes it a great gift for guitar lovers! While unpacking this present, be sure to ready your camera to catch the big grins and dropped jaws. Buy it now from Amazon.com.

Guitar Straps

Guitar straps give you a great return for your "'investment", because the receiver will remember you each time they put on the strap to play their instrument. It's also hard to go wrong with a strap, just pick a neutral color like brown or black and you can be sure that you're gift will be put to good use.

Levy's Leathers Suede Guitar Straps Perfect for the guitarist who cares about style.	Planet Waves Classic Leather Guitar Strap Inexpensive and durable - suited to guitarists of all kinds.	Fender 2 Vintage Tweed Strap You'll know if this is the right style for the person you're giving this to.

Guitar Care

It's no fun when guitars fall over or get a bit grubby. These are some great products to help someone look after their guitar.

Farley's StagePlayer II This guitarist stool and stand with footrest is such a brilliant yet simple idea that it's amazing no one thought of it decades ago.	Grip Studios Penny Wise Custom Guitar Grip This hand shaped guitar hanger attaches to a wall and is strong enough to hang any regular guitar or bass guitar on.	Dunlop System 65 Guitar Maintenance Kit This is a great product for keeping all guitar parts and strings in top working condition.

Guitar Picks and Holders

Giving away regular picks is too common, so we picked the coolest ones available, along with a nice pick holder.

PickBay Stainless Steel Guitar Pick Holder Necklace Possibly the most stylish way to prevent losing guitar picks - and it comes with 3 picks as well.	V-Picks Guitar Picks 7 Piece Starter Kit These are really cool picks with a range of shapes and sizes to suit every type of guitar playing.	ZeroGravity Orbit Guitar Pick Here is a unique guitar pick that is designed to cling to the hand, so guitar players won't have to worry about losing their picks!

Headphones and Pocket Amps

Pocket amplifiers and headphones are great gifts for guitarists, with these gifts they can finally practice quietly and the neighbors will owe you a debt of gratitude for saving their ears.

Marshall Headphones Major These are perhaps the most stylish headphones ever produced for guitarists - and they're very high quality too!	Korg Pandora Mini PXMINIWH Your favorite guitarist will be thrilled to get one of these - not only can they play their electric guitar through headphones, but they also get the sounds and effects of hundreds of different guitar amps!	Vox amPlug AC30 Guitar Headphone Amp Not only can they play guitar using headphones with this - they can also plug in their CD/MP3 Player and play along with their favorite tunes.

Guitar Pedals

Guitar players love guitar pedals, but they do not expect it from the non guitar playing crowd - so surprise them with these select great sounding effect pedals.

DigiTech JamMan Solo XT Looper This is one pedal that guitarists love, but do not take the effort to buy. Finding this full featured looper pedal inside a gift box will surely be a treat.	Electro-Harmonix Talking Pedal This pedal features zero-moving parts and is one of the latest innovations in guitar pedal making, it will definitely be a surprising and useful gift.	Fender Runaway Feedback Pedal All guitar players have in one way or another imagined themselves playing with feedback in a big rock stadium. This pedal will make at least one part of their dream come true as the Feedback Pedal simulates and controls feedback. More details about this pedal here

Mini Guitars

Here are some cool mini-guitars - an affordable gift selection that showcases the instruments of popular artists . Bye the way - these are just for show, you can't actually play them.

Mini Guitar Jimi Hendrix Monterey Pop A miniature display version of Jimi's popular Stratocaster	Heavy Metal Rock Guitar Dragon Statue It sits 8.5 inches tall.	Mini Guitar John Lennon Rickenbacker Another 10 inch tall display, this time based on John Lennon's guitar.

Portable Amplifiers

These aren't meant to replace your guitarist's main amp - these are handy little additions to their equipment list that are easy to carry around. These are the type of things that people don't get around to buying for themselves, but are very pleased when someone else buys it for them.

Luna Guitar Suitcase Amplifer Runs on both batteries and mains power and can be carried using a guitar strap as seen in the picture above.	Marshall MS4 Mini Micro Full Stack This goes up to 1.1 rather than 11, but that's the point - an easily portable practice amp that looks like the famous big Marshall Stack.	Pignose 7-100 Legendary Portable Amplifier This also runs on batteries or with an AC adapter (not included - but your guitarist probably already has one) - Pignose is also featured in our Portable Bass Amp Roundup.

Cool Guitar Stuff

Here are some humor infused guitar shaped products that have nothing to do with making music, but a lot to do with having fun. These will definitely put a smile on your guitar toting friend's face.

The Guitar Collection Book A limited edition drool-inducing book that guitarists will definitely be thankful to receive.	Picnic Time Guitar Cheeseboard This neon guitar sculpture makes for a nice decorative accent to any room, in-home bar or home recording studios.	Guitar Gourmet Coffee Gift Basket Guitar coffee mug and 4 coasters, along with biscotti and 5 blends of gourmet coffee including French Vanilla, Chocolate and Italian Roast Espresso, Kenya AA, Decaf Colombian Supremo.

Collectible Guitars and Amps

If money is not an issue and you'd love to give someone the ultimate guitar present, then check these out. No guitarist, regardless of the kind of music they are into, would ever complain about receiving one of these - and you'll become an absolute legend for giving it!

Gretsch G6128T-GH George Harrison Custom Shop Tribute Duo Jet We're going to give you the price before you click through to prevent heart attacks - it's $20,000! But there are very good reasons for the price tag including the fact that only 60 of them will ever be made and it comes with a range of memorabilia including a personally signed letter from the Harrison family. You can watch the video below to see just why this guitar is so special. Give someone this and they'll have their mind set on you forever!	Gibson Custom Shop '57 Les Paul Goldtop Reissue Original Gibson Les Paul guitars are some of the most collectible in the guitar world - but they're pretty much impossible to get - however this reissue from the company that made the original is the next best thing. It comes with its own hard case to protect it and keep it shiny and new forever.	Fender Vibro-King Custom with FSR This high-end guitar amp comes from the world's biggest guitar company and is based on one of their amp designs which has been popular and highly sought after for decades. Not the sort of thing you'd give to a 10 year old just starting guitar, but for that special guitarist in your life - whether or not they need a new amp - this would be a wonderful gift.