Hamer Blitz Prototype 8-string fretless

The Hamer Blitz Prototype (sometimes incorrectly known as the Hamer Explorer) is an 8-string fretless bass custom-built for Sting by Hamer. This is also considered to be one of Sting's most iconic-looking basses. The bass itself has a red Gibson Explorer-style body and what looks like a DiMarzio X2N-B pickup on the bridge.

Sting received this bass on 22 November 1980 during a concert in Chicago with The Police. He also played it occasionally during concerts on the Zenyatta Mondatta tour from then until February 1981. He went on to receive two Hamer Cruisebasses, but generally he preferred playing other basses by Fenders and Ibanez.