Men's Gifts Under $50: a Flask Set, a Journal, Glass Cloths
Men's Leather Flask (Brown) with 2 Cups and Funnel
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4.6 · 107 Amazon reviews
$34.95
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Great Birthday gift !Iโm very impressed with the quality of the product. I bought this as a birthday gift for a man, and he loved it.Amazon Customer, verified purchase
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Good choicePerfect for a gift or for personal use. Good quality and a genuine look.mihai, verified purchase
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โNice qualityMy son-in-law has discovered good quality bourbon so I thought he might like this flask. It presents well. Appears well made and looks more expensive than it was.Cherie, verified purchase
From the Amazon listing.
We make three men's gifts and the guides that go with them: a flask set wrapped in PU leather, a pair of glass polishing cloths, and a refillable buffalo leather journal. Three products, not a catalog of two hundred. Each one gets handed over on a specific day and then used for years afterward, which is a different job from the gadget that gets opened once and photographed.
Excalibur Brothers started in 2003 as a sword and knife distributor. At some point it stopped only moving other people's stock and began making its own line of giftware, which is where the flask, the cloths and the journal come from. The line on the rest of the site is "Gifts Fit For A King", and that's the last you'll hear of it here. Nothing is sold on this site. Every button below goes to the product's Amazon listing.
The leather flask set
Men's Leather Flask (Brown) with 2 Cups and Funnel $34.95 ยท 4.6โ ยท 107 Amazon reviews
Eight ounces of 304 stainless steel under a smooth PU leather wrap, boxed with two pony shot glasses, a funnel and a wooden case. Most people shopping for a flask for men end up on a set like this one, because a bare flask handed over without a box reads like a gas station purchase.
The wrap is PU: polyurethane over a backing1, not hide. We say that up front because plenty of listings don't. What you get for it is a surface that wipes clean when someone spills rye on it, never needs conditioning, and costs a fraction of a full-grain wrap. What you give up is patina. It will look the same in five years as it does in the box, for better and worse.
The steel is the part that decides whether a flask is any good, and this one is 304 with a laser-welded seam rather than a soldered one2. Solder lines are where flasks start to weep. Excalibur Brothers states the body is air-pressure tested and leak-proof; that's the brand's claim about its own production, not a bench test we ran.
Full specs, capacity and materials are on the leather flask product page. If the man getting it has never owned one, how to fill, carry and clean a hip flask covers the parts nobody explains.
The glass polishing cloth
Glass Polishing Cloth (2 Pack) $22.95 ยท 4.6โ ยท 89 Amazon reviews
Two microfiber cloths, 23.5 by 20 inches each. Lint-free, used damp or dry, no spray or chemical needed.
Wine glasses come out of the dishwasher with water spots and come out of a dish towel with lint. That's the whole problem this solves. The size matters more than it sounds: at 23.5 by 20 inches you can get one hand inside the bowl and support the base with the other, which is how stems stop snapping.
They also work on windows, eyeglasses, phone and laptop screens, and the stainless front of a fridge that shows every fingerprint. Wash them and use them again.
The wine glass polishing cloth page has the specifics. If the glasses are already cloudy, start with wine glass care instead, because no cloth fixes etching.
The leather journal
Premium Leather Journal for Men $14.95 ยท 4.6โ ยท 7 Amazon reviews
A6, so 4.3 by 5.9 inches. Dark brown buffalo leather cover, pen loop, a bookmark with the EB emblem, a 100-page ivory insert, and a keepsake box.
This one is real hide, unlike the flask wrap, and it behaves like hide: it darkens where a thumb sits, and it takes conditioner once or twice a year.
Refillable is the point. The leather is a cover, and the 100-page insert slides out when it's full, so the thing that gets carried for a decade is the cover, not the paper. Seven reviews is a thin sample and we're not going to dress it up; the product is new.
More on sizing and refills at the leather journal page, and if you're buying for someone who actually writes, gifts for writers is the shortlist.
Men's gifts by occasion
Father's Day
The flask set, most of the time. It photographs well when it's opened at a table with everyone watching, and the two cups mean he can pour you one back, which is the part that makes it land.
Groomsmen
The flask set again, at $34.95 a head. One warning: there is no engraving on ours. If the groomsmen gifts you have in mind are personalized with names and a date, buy them somewhere that engraves. If what you want is something they'd use in November at an outdoor game, this is it.
Christmas
All three sell hardest in December, which is also when delivery estimates start sliding and the cheap shipping tier stops being cheap. Order in the first half of the month and the flask arrives in a wooden box instead of a screenshot.
Retirement
The journal. People who retire start writing things down, and a pocket-sized cover that outlives its paper suits a habit that may last twenty years. At $14.95 it also works as the gift five colleagues go in on together with something else.
For the man who has everything
The cloths. Nobody buys themselves a $22.95 pair of polishing cloths, and everybody who owns decent stemware needs them. Gifts for men who have everything usually fail because they aim higher. This one aims sideways.
How to look after them
A flask is a vessel, not storage. Fill it the morning of, empty it that night, rinse it while it's still wet and leave the cap off to dry. Leave bourbon in one for six months and the taste that comes out is not the steel's fault. How to fill, carry and clean a hip flask has the method, including the part about drying the inside.
Glassware is mostly about water, not soap. Hard water leaves spots, and those spots turn into a permanent haze if they're left long enough. Wash by hand in warm water, dry immediately with the cloth while the glass is still warm, and hold the bowl instead of the stem. Wine glass care covers the spots, the film and the difference between the two.
Buffalo leather wants very little. Keep it out of the sun and away from radiators, wipe dust off with a dry cloth, and put conditioner on it once or twice a year, worked in thin with your fingers. How to condition leather has the routine and the products worth using. The flask wrap needs none of this; PU takes a damp cloth and nothing else.
Men's gifts FAQ
What do groomsmen want for gifts?
Something they'd have bought for themselves. Drinking gear, or tickets to something they'd have paid for anyway. The gifts that die in a drawer are the ones with the wedding date printed on them, because the object exists to commemorate your day rather than to be used on any of theirs.
What is the best flask for men?
The one with a 304 stainless body, a welded seam and a cap that stays shut in a pocket. Capacity is preference: 6 oz hides better under a jacket, 8 oz holds two more drinks. Plated or soldered bodies are where leaks and metallic aftertaste come from. Laws on carrying one vary by state and venue.
What are some good gadgets for writers?
Most things sold as writer gadgets are pens that cost too much. The ones that get used are the ones that travel: a pocket notebook that survives a jacket, and a pen that doesn't blot in one. Our gifts for writers list is the honest version.
Sources
Every figure, rule and date above traces to one of these. We link the body that issued it, never someone's summary of it, and we don't link anyone who sells what we sell.
- U.S. Government Publishing Office / Federal Trade Commission, 16 CFR Part 24 ยง 24.2(a) โ Imitation or simulated leather. Checked 20 Sep 2026.
- U.S. Food and Drug Administration (eCFR), 21 CFR ยง 189.240 โ Lead solders. Checked 20 Sep 2026.
The three guides
What a Hip Flask Is For and Whether Carrying One Is LegalWhat a hip flask holds, what to put in one, how long spirits keep inside it, how to fill and carry it, and whe
Wine Glass Care in Five Habits and One Permanent MistakeWine glass care in five habits: wash by hand with almost no soap, rinse hot, dry warm, polish with microfiber,
Refillable Leather Journal: Keep the Cover, Swap the PagesA refillable A6 leather journal: buffalo leather cover, 100-page ivory insert, pen loop, box. Keep the cover,
