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Note the cavity cover on the back, which houses the components of Andy Summers’ mid-boost system.

We’ve covered Andy’s iconic guitar and what makes it so special, so now we’ll get to building our own.

Hello and welcome back to Mod Garage for the second installment of the Andy Summers Telecaster wiring. We covered many of the details of this unique guitar last time, so now we’ll jump right in to assembling your own.

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Andy’s axe!

Photo courtesy of Ten-Guitars (https://ten-guitars.de)

The Police guitarist’s go-to guitar is the source of a few mysteries, so let’s crack the code.

Hello and welcome back to Mod Garage. In this column, we’ll take a closer look at the wiring of Andy Summers’ famous Telecaster, as well as some of the many mysteries of this guitar that remain unsolved today.

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One of Summers’ still-ongoing projects is a multimedia show entitled “The Cracked Lens + A Missing String,” which he started touring before the pandemic.

With the release of his latest solo EP, Vertiginous Canyons, the former Police guitarist shares in-depth on his personal journey from Romani caravan to becoming a peer of Eric Clapton’s to shaping a modern dialect of jazz-rock innovation.

This past June, onstage at a handsomely restored vaudeville theater in Washington, D.C., the guitarist and composer Andy Summers made a small but spirited crowd laugh. Hard.

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