Maple Practice Amp!

Something cool featured on Make, is this swigity-sweet little practice amp that came from a personal website called nonentity. Really lovely work indeed! Check out a step-by-step (with pictures!) of how this hand-crafted beauty was made.

Guitarist Zack Kim Shreds Mario Bros.

For all us tragically nostalgic kids who owned one of the first Nintendo game systems and who's voices changed not because of puberty but from blowing into game cartridges and screaming endless hours at the Koopa Troopas, here's a guitar virtuoso who feels our pain.

This is a priceless video clip I caught over at haha.nu of an Australian guy named Zack Kim playing the original Super Mario Brothers Theme on two guitars simultaneously using a finger-tapping technique that would make Eddie VanHalen proud as a pickled herring.

Check out his site for loads of links to similar videos he's made (including other video game themes!).

***Edit!***

Awe, screw it. Here's a few more unique samples of the Mario theme I found on YouTube after posting Zack Kim's. Enjoy!

Classical Guitar:

11 String Bass:

Drums and Bass: