Loverboy – Wildside

Starting sometime later in the early 2000's, Paul started using Fender Stratocasters with Floyd Rose vibratos and HSS configuration. The Specific model of Stratocaster(s) is virtually unknown. Very likely he started using these so they could play some of the "Lovin' Every Minute of It" and "Wildside" era material played using Kramer Paul Dean models that had a Floyd Rose locking vibrato unit.

He mentions them as just Stratocasters usually in interviews. He uses them quite a lot. He has/had a white one, a silver one, a Jade green metallic one (in the video source), and more recently a red/black one with a maple neck (probably to look like his old funky strat).

Starting around 1984-1985ish, for the album "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" in particular, Paul jumped from inexpensive guitar manufacturer Hondo to the quintessential guitar brand of the 1980's - Kramer - best known for being used by Edward Van-Halen.

With Kramer, Paul redesigned his previous "Dean Machine" design to be a neck-through, mahogany bodied, Seymour Duncan HSS equipped (2X Duncan Vintage Flat strat pickups and a Seymour Duncan Jeff Beck (J.B.) Humbucker), Floyd Rose original vibrato equipped guitar shaped just like his previous Hondo/Odyssey/Home-Built guitars. Kramer created a production model, with some early guitars being manufactured by Larrivee in Canada, some being made at the Neptune New Jersey Kramer factory, and others being made in Japan.

Paul had multiple variants of these guitars including a single humbucker EVH style one from an 85' Loverboy concert, and several that may have been home-built bodies and necks that Paul used to cobble variations of these guitars in various configurations in the studio between takes on the Wildside album (those were bolt-on necks though).

More info on these guitars is availible at vintage-kramer.com https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaJ00sEgLEU