Tokai Love Rock ALS-48

Über Tokai Love Rock ALS-48

The ALS-48 is the entry-level Love Rock, built in Korea (in the old Cort factory) from about 1995 to 2003 and in China since; new it sold for roughly 400-500 in euros or dollars. The Korean guitars carry no serial but Made in Korea inked on the pots; the tells against a Japanese one are a hex-nut truss rod rather than the Gibson-style brass nut, a three-screw (or one-screw; two on some early ones) truss-rod cover, metric pickup rings, small pots, a box-type toggle, binding seen mainly from the side and a photo-print flame top. Later Chinese examples carry MK4 pickups, and distributor runs exist, a 2017 lemon drop of 108 for France with Giovanni pickups, with the open-book headstock on some. Owners date theirs from 1995 to 2017. On a Korean guitar the hex truss-rod nut sits deep in the neck under the string nut and takes a hex key, it is not a snapped rod, and not the Gibson-style socket of the Japanese guitars.

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Tokai Love Rock ALS-48 wurde im Median für 310 € verkauft (letzte 24 Monate, 8 erfasste Verkäufe; die meisten zwischen 280 € und 410 €). Aktuell gibt es 7 Inserate auf Reverb, eBay USA, eBay Deutschland, ab 337 €. Zahlen berechnet am 19. Oktober 2026 von Doirado aus Inseratsdaten mehrerer Marktplätze.

Was Besitzer anderswo gesagt haben

Sinngemäß wiedergegeben aus 12 Diskussionen unter 21 Besitzern, 2021 bis 2026. Keine Namen, keine Zitate. Der Text ist auf Englisch.

The verdict on the ALS-48 is consistent: quite good quality from China, still a very excellent guitar, good for the money and capable of being great with a few small upgrades; a pawn-shop find is praised for its finish, neck, sound and pickups, and a 2017 lemon drop is called streets better than an Epiphone 59 that cost three times as much. The dissent is from a collector of six Japanese Tokais who will not buy the Korean or Chinese ones at all, and from those who stress a good guitar is still far from a Japanese one.