A guitarist who has everything usually has more of the same: several electrics, a few acoustics, a board full of drives. What they rarely have is a different kind of guitar or a tool that makes their gear sound new. Those are the gifts below. Every pick comes from our rankings, with tonight's Thomann price.
Gifts under $400
EBow Plus, $111
A handheld electronic bow that makes a string sustain endlessly, like a violin or a synth pad. Heard on countless rock and pop records. #355 of 388 miscellaneous guitar effects.
Two Notes Torpedo Captor, $234
A loadbox, attenuator and DI in one: cuts a tube amp's volume by 20 dB and lets them record it silently. Get the version matching their cabinet (8 or 16 ohms). #2 of 31 guitar amp attenuators.
Boss SY-200 Guitar Synthesizer, $336
A pedal that turns a normal guitar into a polyphonic synth, no special pickup needed. #3 of 18 guitar / bass synthesizers.
Traveler Guitar Ultra Light Electric, $391
An electric guitar with a normal 24.75-inch scale but only 711 mm long overall, small enough for an overhead bin. #1 of 30 travel guitars.
Gifts under $700
Gretsch G5700 Lap Steel, $503
An electric lap steel with a single-coil pickup, played flat with a steel bar: country, Hawaiian and slide sounds. The highest-ranked lap steel we track: #1 of 12 lap steel guitars.
Squier Tele Custom Baritone, $517
A baritone Telecaster with a longer scale, tuned lower than a normal guitar, for heavy riffs and twangy surf. #1 of 43 baritone guitars.
Takamine GD30CE-12N, $559
A 12-string acoustic dreadnought with a solid spruce top and a cutaway, for the shimmering sound of folk and classic rock. #1 of 79 12-String acoustic guitars.
Gretsch G9240 Alligator Biscuit, $637
A roundneck resonator guitar with a biscuit bridge, for blues and slide. The highest-ranked resonator guitar we track: #1 of 46 resonator guitars.
Questions
What do you get a guitarist who has everything?
A different kind of guitar (lap steel, baritone, 12-string, resonator) or a tool like an EBow ($111) that makes their guitars sound new.
What is a cheap but unusual gift for a guitarist?
An EBow: almost nobody buys one for themselves.
How we picked. Every product comes from an AudioFu ranking, scored on demand, price, specs and brand; specs from Thomann's product data. Prices are converted from euros at the European Central Bank rate and updated every night, as are the ranks.
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Denis Kataev runs AudioFu. Every night the site records the prices of more than 38,000 instruments and studio tools at Thomann, and he writes about what those numbers show: what got cheaper, what just arrived, and which discounts are real.
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