Best Tool Gifts for Serious Professionals and Enthusiasts in 2024
27th Oct 2023
Whether it's a friend, partner, or relative, we all know a passionate maker or creator that always has a project that is on the go. Gifting them tools is a gesture that they will truly appreciate with every project they undertake.
In this post, we’ve collected our favourite tool gifts, perfect for a Birthday or Christmas present.
They are currently all available with optional seasonal gift wrapping too.
Best Gift for the Professional DIY’er
Our choice: DIY Plier Set Platinum 5 Pliers
This comprehensive toolkit will elevate your DIY’ers work to another level.
This toolkit will become their go-to for all their essential home maintenance and DIY jobs. From gripping items in tight spaces, to cutting through tough hard wire, they’ll have a professional tool to do the job right.
This 5-piece set includes:
- Snipe Nose Serrated Jaws Parallel Plier 125 mm – ideal for reaching into tight spaces, like removing an old raw plug, and gripping fixings or other materials with limited access.
- Flat Nose Parallel Plier with Comfort Grips 140 mm – the pliers that offer phenomenal grip. Great for loosening or tightening nuts.
- End Cutting Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 150 mm – Designed to remove nails and nip to a flush cut with minimum effort.
- Side Cutter Parallel Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 160 mm – the perfect everyday set of pliers. These combination pliers let you cut, grip and bend without switching tools.
- Diagonal Cutting Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grip 160 mm Effortless cutting from screws and bolts to wire and trunking, and more.
Reasons to gift:
- Comprehensive toolkit: a diverse range of tools for various DIY jobs.
- Cost-effective: save money on individual tools by purchasing as a set.
- Professional performance: seriously high-quality tools, robust construction, rust-proof finish, and guaranteed durability designed to meet the demands of professionals.
- Made in England.
- Gift wrapping available.
Click here to view the product online.
Best Gift for the Passionate Jewellery Maker
Our choice: Jewellery Making Tool Kit Platinum 6 Pliers
Gift the perfect professional-grade tools to make your jewellery maker’s creations shine even brighter.
Ideal for the passionate jewellery artisan, these tools will expand their ability to create with greater detail and precision that will elevate their pieces to another level. This selection of specialist pliers ensures they can manipulate wire, bend rings, create intricate loops and more, with the delicacy and precision that will delight.
This 6-piece jewellery tool kit includes:
- Smooth Jaws Flat Nose Parallel Plier 140 mm – smooth jaws help to prevent the pliers scratching delicate jewellery.
- Half Round and Flat Jaws Parallel Plier 140 mm – having one round and one flat jaw makes it really efficient to bend rings and create curved surfaces.
- Round Jaws 1 1/2″ Parallel Plier 140 mm – two round and tapered jaws allow you to bend loops and rings of all different sizes with one tool.
- Snipe Nose Smooth Jaws Parallel Plier 125 mm – the tapered jaws allow you to be really precise in small spaces, ideal for more complex jewellery.
- Round And Flat Jaws Parallel Plier 140 mm – a multi-use tool that combines a traditional plier and round jaw plier, allowing you to bend rings and grip with one tool, improving jewellery making efficiency.
- Nylon Jaws Flat Nose Parallel Plier 140 mm – the nylon jaws of this plier are ideal for especially sensitive jewellery materials, ensuring the jaws don’t scratch the material surface.
Reasons to gift:
- Professional jewellery tools, ideal for a jewellery maker or aspiring hobbyist.
- Cost-effective: save money on individual tools by purchasing as a set.
- Made in England.
- Gift wrapping available.
Click here to view the product online.
Best Gift for Model Makers and Builders
Our choice: Model Making Tool Kit Platinum 5 Tools
The perfect gift for the professional model builder and scale model enthusiast, with a range of tools to help them create architectural designs, trains, planes, fantasy models and more.
This toolkit will aid both their precision and efficiency, helping them realise their dream model in less time, and to a higher standard. Ideal for cutting, measuring, and holding pieces in place without damaging them.
This 5-piece model making toolkit includes:
- Snipe Nose Smooth Jaws Parallel Plier 125 mm – snipe nose pliers have tapered jaws, ideal for working with miniatures or in tighter spaces within the model. The smooth jaws also prevent damage on the item gripped.
- Smooth Jaws Flat Nose Parallel Plier with Comfort Grips 140 mm – a versatile set of pliers ideal for gripping items or bending wire, with comfort grips to make them easy to use over a long model making session.
- Steel Straight Edge Imperial 12″ - this engineered straight edge ensures all marks and cuts are measured accurately, so everything fits together as expected.
- Side Cutter Parallel Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 160 mm – a multi-use gripping a cutting plier that’s robust serrated jaws ensure no slipping, so you can rely on them at a pivotal moment during a build.
- Clamping Parallel Plier with Plastic Jaw Inserts 160 mm – you only have two hands, so a clamping plier can be an essential part of a model maker’s tool kit, helping them lock pieces together whilst freeing up their hands.
Reasons to gift:
- Designed for model makers, the perfect gift for a professional or an enthusiast.
- Cost-effective: save money on individual tools by purchasing as a set.
- Made in England.
- Gift wrapping available.
Click here to view the product online.
Best Gift for a Leatherworking Enthusiast
Our choice: Leatherwork Kit Platinum 5 Tools
Elevate the precision and style of their leather creations with this professional leather toolkit.
Whether they make belts, bags, or saddles, there are common tasks involved with leatherworking that these tools do better than anything else. Easily punch holes into the thickest of leather pieces, measure and cut accurately while protecting your fingers, and install rivets with repeatable accuracy.
This 5-piece leather working toolkit includes:
- Hole Punch Plier 1.0 mm to 4.8 mm Punches (plier, anvil and all punches) – a versatile punch plier to punch different sizes in leather precisely and efficiently.
- Heavy Duty Revolving Leather Hole Punch Plier – ideal for punching holes in thicker leather, for those more robust items like belts.
- Steel Straight Edge Imperial 18″ - ideal for measuring and scoring cuts into smaller pieces of leather.
- Steel Straight Edge Imperial 36″ - a large measuring and scoring tool for big leather pieces used in larger projects.
- Cupped Rivet Plier 160 mm (plier & 1 X bag of 100 assorted rivets) – securely fasten two-part rivets, ideal for joining multiple pieces of leather together, such as bag handles.
Reasons to gift:
- Ideal for anyone working with leather or leather crafting.
- Cost-effective: save money on individual tools by purchasing as a set.
- Made in England.
- Gift wrapping available.
Click here to view the product online.
Best Gift for Farmers or Gardening Enthusiasts
Our choice: Outdoor Plier Set Platinum 5 Pliers
A set of rugged tools designed for the outdoors, that they can rely on no matter what the weather throws at them.
Whether it’s out on the farm or working in the garden, you need robust tools that are built to last through wet weather and repeated use. This toolkit contains everything they need to grip, bend, and cut through various items, including hard wire fencing.
This 5-piece outdoor pliers set includes:
- Side Cutter Parallel Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 200 mm – designed for handling tough metal wire, these pliers will make it easy for them to make bends and cuts, perfect for maintaining fencing or shaping wire plant supports.
- Snipe Nose Serrated Jaws Parallel Plier 125 mm – designed for tight spaces, these ensure they still get great control on smaller objects, such as attaching a plant to a stake amongst other stems.
- End Cutting Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 150 mm – ideal for making cuts really close to another surface, used for removing old nails or cutting off excess wire.
- Side Cutter Parallel Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 160 mm – this smaller version of the combination plier is designed to be easier to use, ideal if you’re making repeated cuts over a long period.
- Diagonal Cutting Plier for Hard Wire with Comfort Grips 160 mm – these diagonal cutters are designed to make it really easy to cut through hard wire, multiplying your hand force by 22x, which is ideal when working long days fixing fencing.
Reasons to gift:
- Durable and practical tools ideal for those working on outdoor projects.
- Cost-effective: save money on individual tools by purchasing as a set.
- Made in England.
- Gift wrapping available.
Click here to view the product online.
What can you get someone who has every tool?
Professionals and enthusiasts very rarely have every tool they need. Whether through wear and tear or innovation a new tool is often on their wish list. Maun pliers are considered some of the best around, with exceptional features like the parallel jaws, so consider Maun pliers for your special someone, and give them an extraordinary gift.
What’s best to buy a DIY enthusiast?
The best gift to buy a DIY enthusiast is a set of professional tools that they will enjoy using and that will last for project after project. Professional tools enable a professional finish and can help a DIY expert go from good to great, so consider a practical gift and upgrade their tools with professional products from Maun.
Are tools a good gift?
Yes, tools are a great gift if they are going to be used and appreciated. If you’re buying them for someone who you know enjoys a project, then they’re sure to appreciate a high-quality set of tools, such as those from Maun.
What to get your handyman for Christmas?
If you know a handyman, whether it’s your dad, son, husband, or other, then a great gift to get him at Christmas is a new set of tools. By upgrading his toolkit, you’ll be helping him be even more handy, meaning those projects shouldn’t take quite as long, and so he’ll have a bit more time to spend with you.
What to get for a guy who loves tools?
For a guy who loves tools, the best gift you can get him is a professional set of tools from a specialist manufacturer. You could upgrade his normal combination pliers to a high-performance pair of parallel side-cutter pliers from Maun or swap his basic cutting pliers to more efficient high-leverage cutters from Maun.
Conclusion
That was our selection of tool gift ideas for your favourite marker or creator. Whether they are a time-served professional, a seasoned enthusiast, or a budding hobbyist, professional tools are no ordinary gift.
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