Gift of Screws is the fifth solo album by American musician and Fleetwood Mac vocalist/guitarist Lindsey Buckingham, and was released on September 15, 2008.

High-quality bootlegs of the Gift of Screws project, which had been mixed but not yet mastered, were publicly circulated for free MP3 download in October 2001.

[2] Buckingham mentioned in interviews upon the release of Under the Skin that his next album was to be more rock-oriented and would possibly feature contributions from Fleetwood and McVie.

"[5] Buckingham played a Baby Taylor, a Martin D-18, a Turner Renaissance acoustic, and a Model One electric guitar during the making of Gift of Screws.

He occasionally sent his electric guitars through a Boss OD-1 overdrive effect pedal, but also utilized some of the presets on Roland's VG-8 V-Guitar System.

[4] He experimented with an unconventional guitar tuning to convey a desired mood that reflected the musical score of the film.

[11] Billboard likened "Great Day" to "the stark and primitive sonics of Tusk and Buckingham's early solo albums".