Tokai Love Rock LS-100
guitar
Has sold for €1,800 over 2015–2026, across 29 used sales. Too few in the last two years for a typical price today.
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Not enough sold data for a typical price. 7 for sale, from €2,100.
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-100
The LS-100 is the first of the rare tier of vintage Love Rocks (1979-85), the model where the DiMarzio PAFs come in: the LS-100, LS-120 and LS-150 shipped with them where the LS-50 to LS-80 carried Gotohs, with double-cream sets on some. Like the LS-80 it has nitrocellulose lacquer that yellows with age and nickel hardware, plus an aluminium stop bar and a deeper neck tenon than the LS-80, though in 1984, a year when specifications wandered, owners say every model from the LS-50 to the LS-200 shared the same joint. Owners date theirs from 1979 to 1985. Dating: until mid-1980 the model was stamped into the fingerboard behind the last fret; from the second half of that year it moved to a sticker on the back of the headstock, an oval patch under the serial that shows when breathed on, and an ink stamp in the pickup cavity, and a refret can sand the fingerboard stamp away. Serials from 1980 begin 00 like those from 2000; the truss-rod cover, the pickups and the pot dates tell them apart.
The name returned on the Vintage Series: the modern LS100 is the LS98F renamed when the price rose in 2011, and the LS100F of 2013-14, a veneer flame top on a two-piece back, poly finish, a standard tenon and MK2 PAF pickups. By 2016 the same guitar was the LS136F. Necks on the modern guitars run in two camps: the models from the 100 up carry fat 1959-style profiles, the ones below it thinner 1960s-style, one buyer found the LS-100's neck much thicker than the 2012 LS90Q bought instead.
For sale right now
The best-priced as cards, a row of them; every other ad as a line, by ask. Each ask is the seller’s own number; the platform’s mark opens the listing. Each one says when we last confirmed it at its source: the price and availability are from that visit, so check the marketplace before you go.
eBay United States
eBay Germany1 more live · €4,705–€4,705 · typical ask €3,031
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 30 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. Too few sales to draw a trend through them without inventing one, so the points speak for themselves. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Apr 2026 | €950$1,100 as sold | excellent |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Mar 2026 | €3,234$3,758 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Mar 2025 | €1,382$1,600 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Sept 2024 | €1,381$1,599 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Apr 2023 | €1,297$1,450 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Show all 30 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 24 Oct 2025 | €2,081$2,336 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jun 2023 | €2,289$2,650 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 Nov 2022 | €1,336$1,500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Sept 2022 | €2,159$2,500 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Aug 2022 | €1,514$1,700 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Aug 2022 | €860$996 as sold | excellent |   Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Aug 2022 | €886$995 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Apr 2022 | €1,209$1,400 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Nov 2021 | €1,157$1,299 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Oct 2021 | €2,227$2,500 as sold | very good | — | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2021 | €1,900$2,200 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Aug 2021 | €2,245$2,599 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jul 2021 | €980$1,100 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jul 2021 | €2,137$2,399 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Jan 2020 | €2,227$2,500 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Dec 2019 | €2,227$2,500 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Jul 2019 | €2,262$2,539 as sold | very good |  Norway | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Jul 2018 | €1,979$2,300 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 13 Mar 2018 | €1,788$1,999 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Feb 2018 | €2,668$2,995 as sold | mint | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 30 Nov 2017 | €2,177$2,444 as sold | mint |  Australia | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Sept 2017 | €758$850 as sold | very good |  Bulgaria | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Aug 2017 | €1,535$1,723 as sold | new |  France | Reverb | Details |
| 21 Jun 2017 | €1,370$1,587 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jun 2015 | €1,336$1,500 as sold | excellent |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
A date is the day the ad went up. Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026. A price is what the listing last asked, converted at that day’s rate.
Cheapest live: Japan €2,100 · before shipping
29 recorded sales of the Tokai Love Rock LS-100 from 2015–2026, all-time around €1,800. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €2,100 before shipping. Figures computed 18 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 33 discussion threads among 53 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
The vintage LS-100 is called the best Les Paul its owner has played in 35 years, ahead of a Gibson R8 that went; another 1981 is the best its owner has played, a third says the hype is real, and the regret of those who sold one runs through the threads. The modern one is rated top notch and, unlike the Gibson equivalent, not weight relieved; one owner's 1999 gold top is the one that gets played though others sound nicer, and one calls the LS100 built to exceed 1958-59 specification. The dissent: one 1985 owner is unconvinced by the DiMarzios, and against an LS-50 on the same amp listeners liked the LS-50's grit a hair more, giving the LS-100 the clarity. On pickups most advise leaving them, the Gotohs as good as anything, set the height and use the volume, while the swappers name Seymour Duncan Antiquity, Bare Knuckle Mule, Monty's, Eightbomb, Nowaxx and Tonerider PAF sets.