CruzTools Review

Hi Gospel Guitars here and today I'm going to do a review on the Cruise Tools Packet for guitar players. So here we have the kit and I thought about getting one of these time and time again just I always see things like this pop up in the online stores and I always think about getting them but I never do. This time I was rather impressed with the assortment that's in it and once I received it yesterday I was really impressed with the quality so I thought you guys need to know how good this kit is. It comes in a nice sturdy plastic gig bag there and it's got a nice sturdy zipper on it. Is this an unboxing? I don't know if it qualifies. It's an unzipping okay. Everything comes, it's got a little pocket for everything pick pocket up here and this here opens up and has a nice size this is a full size pocket back here and it comes with this instruction manual on how to do your own guitar setups so if you've never actually learned how to do guitar setups it takes you step by step and it's got a place where you can write in your own measurements for your own guitar and it's got good references as starting points and it just goes through setting up your truss rod and and your nut and your string action and your bridge and nothing too sophisticated but it does a good job of explaining how it's done and you can put extra strings in here or other types of tools for like we got a Floyd Rose and it's got you know pretty much all of these hex nuts should take care of you there but depending on what you have you may have your own special tools that you like to keep in there too. It comes with a capo which I was kind of like you know I don't even like these kind of capos but I was like going why do they include a capo well the capo is used as your third hand when it comes to setting up your truss rod so you can put this at the first fret and then hold your finger at the 12th fret or so and take your measurements for your truss rod so that's that's why they include this in case you're wondering like I was it's a tool kit but they put a capo in it it's kind of huh so yeah they're handy for a third hand um it looks like a decent quality string winder most of these just you know they get all wiggly and loose and stuff this one looks fairly well built it's got a nice screw inside holding it together and it does have the slot for your acoustic pins to pop those out um I do have a planet waves winder but it doesn't have the slot on there so it's like well I guess it's used for electrics only um these pockets aren't actual pockets they're more of an elastic strap and um they just flex so when you pull things out they're not just like a rubber fixed length strap they will adjust um to hold whatever you need the uh the quality of the tools I was pretty impressed with the quality of the tools um the screwdriver is a uh six piece basically it's got your your larger size um screwdrivers on one end and the smaller sizes for your phillips and standard at the other end but when you pull them out these are actually used for truss rods so you actually have two different truss rod sizes you can use I won't get into all the specifics there but it feels like a nice good it grips good in my hand it's a nice it's plastic it's not rubber um but it just has a good tactile feel to it I like it um it has all of the uh all of them all the hex wrenches you need they're color coded um between gold and black for USA and metric and some of them have you can see that a ball end on them there we go so about half of them have that and they have obviously as you can see there's a ton of them here um and they are all separate they all will pull out separately the another thing that was kind of impressive to me was this is spring loaded so it's uh nice got nice rubber grips on them and uh they seem to be really nice quality as well now when you get the kit the metal the metal in here is coated with an oil and um this is really wet um this has all of your fine fine measurements and it's got a bunch of them too all the way down to like 20 thousandths of an inch I think no wait um 18 16 so it goes really really really low some of these the the this one's like paper thin right here super thin so it's got a nice selection there but these are all if the camera can probably see that I don't know if it's going to show but this is really oily so you need to wipe off all this stuff because you don't want to get this on your guitar don't know what it would do with the finish personally but I don't want to risk it the one thing that impressed me the most that I wanted the most out of the kit was this bad boy a really decent six inch ruler with all the measurements that you need and this goes down to on the um imperial side of the ruler it goes down to a quarter inch of it is in 60 fourths measurements I don't know if it's going to show on the camera I don't know if I can line it up right hopefully that'll focus if I can get the light out of it very good ruler everything is the thing that surprised me too is the ruler is not just black print on stainless steel all of these lines and measurements are actually engraved into the ruler and then filled with black ink now the really cool thing is on the back the back has a cheat sheet for how to do all your measurements for your setups and it'll cover truss rod bridge pickup height and bridge intonation it tells you where to measure at the condition the specification which is the measurement for the part all just kind of a little quick cheat chart right here on the back of the ruler which I think that's really cool so this is actually designed for us guitar guys who like to work on our own guitars it's not if you go out and buy a six inch ruler and 60 force and and metric measurements at the hardware store you're not going to get the cheat folks I mean it's just you're going to have to remember so it's nice to have something that's actually for guitar to fill this purpose so I was kind of surprised I was really iffy on buying it at you know 50 plus dollars um but I'm here to tell you that it's not a waste of money this is a really really nice kit it's very high quality in my opinion I've used tons of tools over the years and I'm always skeptical about buying these so-called guitar kits that state they're high quality this one really is this is really a nice kit I really suggest that you know if you want to work on your own guitars or if you want to learn to do your own setups you know you need this kit plus it comes with the instruction manual which is really nice touch it's thin so it fits right into your gig bag so when you're gigging out you can just take it with you and always have what you need to work on your guitar so that's just as quick as possible review on the kit and because I don't know about you guys but I always look at them and want to see more of them in the guitar mags and things like that but all you get is this shot and you don't have any idea what the quality is but I don't know if there's any other videos out there on this but I thought I'd spit mine out and I hope you enjoyed watching I hope it helped you make a decision I don't work for these people they don't give me any money but when I get something that I'm impressed with I'd really do like to pass it on to you guys so I don't do a lot of reviews but I think this one really deserved it it's a good kit I'd recommend it highly so that's it I hope you like the video please subscribe and like the video and share it with your friends and post it on your website cruise tools goodbye and with that I'll see you in the next video