The guitar seen in the Working for the Weekend video, it's unclear weather that's a very very early prototype, or a guitar given to Paul by Odyssey guitars. Most recently, Paul released a video lesson on "Working for the Weekend" using this guitar - complete with some GREAT closeups of the neck, pickguard (which looks like the anvil case material was removed or came off). He also still used it even on Unfinished Business some as well apparently as there's a clip of a promo for that album where Paul is playing the strat. It also was used as an encore guitar at concerts as it was used on those tracks. All of the hits in Loverboy were written and recorded on that guitar - Turn Me Loose, The Kid is Hot Tonight, Working for the Weekend. The end result is the guitar he's seen holding on the back of Loverboy's first record in 1980, and the one he has referred to more recently as his "real favorite guitar". I've never heard him mention headstock tilt or tone channels but it may have those as well.
He tried everything with that neck - shaving it, putting it in the oven, soaking it in the bath tub, nothing appeased the gods of good tone with that neck so Paul took to making his OWN neck for the guitar - complete with the 10th fret break that supposedly made the original neck sound so good after smashing the guitar the first time. The result had great sustain, but no real tone.
Paul bought a new Telecaster neck and tried to retrofit it to the Strat. Also, the wiring and control positioning was modded to get the volume knob out of Paul's way and get rid of the second tone knob. I have read somewhere that some DIMarsio Strat pickups were put in it at some point, but most likely those are the original 60's Strat pickups in there. The body was painted red, a Leo Quan Badass bridge was put on in place of the stock Strat bridge, and a new pickguard was fashioned out of Anvil Case material. Some extra routing was added, too much was removed, so the excess was re-filled using Plastic Wood (DAP I presume). The body was reinforced with fir, or pine. Paul then rebuilt the body, but scrapped the neck as it was pretty much trashed. One summer, Paul left the Strat in a hot trunk, the glue melted, and it "went for shit" obviously due to the glue softening from the heat. Paul "put humpty back together" using LePage's Bondfast, and it had an amazing resonance effect all of a sudden, but it was not to last. Paul was no stranger to building or modifying guitars even at that early time when most people would not dare take a chisel to an instrument as these things were seen as being made of "black magic" at the time.
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