Hamer Prototype Red

The Hamer Prototype is an electric guitar custom-built for Andy Summers by Jol Dantzig of Hamer guitars in late 1980. It is a candy apple red-finished guitar with a triple-pickup configuration.

Andy Summers had received this custom-built guitar - known as the first Hamer Prototype model due to the abbreviated pickguard - on 22 November 1980 when The Police performed in Chicago, IL. It would be played on a few other concerts on the Zenyatta Mondatta tour, but the Telecaster remained Andy's favourite. The Hamer appeared in the "De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da" music video. Andy Summers would also receive a black Prototype which debuted at The Police's Madison Square Garden concert the following year.