Need a small bit of gift-buying advice. Attn: home bartenders. [View All]

[Chan790]

I'm buying a gift for a friend of mine, the equipment/tools of a home-bar for entertaining. (No, he doesn't have one.)

I already got him a Hawthorne strainer and a Boston shaker, a bar spoon, muddler, knife, small cutting-board, drying mat, garnish-tray.

The questions:

1. Do I buy him a jigger? He's a professional bartender his entire adult life and I've never seen him use one because he can count-pour...so to my line of thought, it's a waste. Someone else in the same line of work insisted that I include one.
2. Did I forget anything?
3. I'm getting him glassware as soon as I figure out what to buy: He drinks beer, cognac and liqueurs, likes to serve mixed-drinks and despises cocktail-drinkers...so snifters, pilsners and rocks? He's got plenty of pints kicking around for the Boston shaker and for use in place of highballs.