Tokai Love Rock LS-129
guitar
Has sold for €800 over 2019–2026, across 10 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. 2 for sale, from €1,066.
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-129
The LS-129 is a Vintage Series Love Rock of the late 2010s and early 2020s, the export model in the range: a two-piece mahogany back under a two-piece maple top, flame on the LS-129F, quilt on the LS-129Q, plain in violin finish or lemon on others, the gold top being the LS122, a one-piece mahogany neck, rosewood board, poly finish, LS-VB bridge and LS-VT tailpiece, PAF Vintage MK2 pickups and Switchcraft switching, the same recipe as the 2003 export Love Rock. There is a black Custom-style LS-129 and a limited all-over-finish Pelham Blue edition of 2022 that came with a certificate. Owners date theirs from 2016 to 2022.
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.
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 51 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Feb 2026 | €1,257$1,411 as sold | very good | Reverb | Details | |
| 25 May 2024 | €669$775 as sold | excellent | Reverb | Details | |
| 25 Jan 2024 | €1,263$1,417 as sold | mint | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 May 2023 | €632$709 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 6 Oct 2022 | €1,277$1,434 as sold | new | 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026.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 the last 50 of 51 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jun 2022 | €1,190$1,336 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 30 Jun 2022 | €1,190$1,336 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 22 Mar 2022 | €1,464$1,694 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 26 Feb 2022 | €641$719 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 10 Feb 2022 | €1,173$1,317 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 Feb 2022 | €1,369$1,532 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 Feb 2022 | €1,373$1,541 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 Feb 2022 | €640$718 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 1 Feb 2022 | €1,048$1,214 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 1 Feb 2022 | €961$1,112 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 27 Jan 2022 | €640$718 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 27 Jan 2022 | €640$718 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 28 Nov 2021 | €621$719 as sold | excellent | Reverb | Details | |
| 10 Nov 2021 | €640$716 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 9 Nov 2021 | €1,347$1,512 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 4 Oct 2021 | €864$1,000 as sold | mint | Reverb | Details | |
| 10 Sept 2021 | €1,572$1,764 as sold | new | — | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Sept 2021 | €1,411$1,584 as sold | new | — | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Sept 2021 | €1,572$1,764 as sold | new | — | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Aug 2021 | €920$1,033 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 21 Jul 2021 | €919$1,064 as sold | excellent | Reverb | Details | |
| 22 May 2021 | €958$1,074 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 22 May 2021 | €867$971 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 16 Apr 2021 | €1,347$1,512 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 Apr 2021 | €650$752 as sold | excellent | Reverb | Details | |
| 10 Mar 2021 | €980$1,100 as sold | excellent | Reverb | Details | |
| 8 Mar 2021 | €640$716 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 8 Mar 2021 | €640$716 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 24 Feb 2021 | €1,229$1,379 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 24 Feb 2021 | €1,520$1,706 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 4 Dec 2020 | €1,088$1,260 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 23 Jul 2020 | €974$1,093 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 22 Jul 2020 | €1,549$1,739 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 3 Jul 2020 | €454$510 as sold | very good | — | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Dec 2019 | €1,754$1,966 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 28 Dec 2019 | €1,746$1,960 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 28 Dec 2019 | €1,746$1,960 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 28 Dec 2019 | €734$850 as sold | very good | Reverb | Details | |
| 25 Dec 2019 | €1,754$1,966 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 25 Dec 2019 | €1,754$1,966 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 21 Dec 2019 | €640$717 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 21 Dec 2019 | €609$684 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 10 Sept 2019 | €961$1,112 as sold | new | Reverb | Details | |
| 18 Jul 2019 | €1,025$1,151 as sold | new | — | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Jul 2019 | €964$1,082 as sold | new | 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 €1,066 · before shipping
10 recorded sales of the Tokai Love Rock LS-129 from 2019–2026, all-time around €800. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €1,066 before shipping. Figures computed 19 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 19 discussion threads among 24 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
The LS-129 is where the modern Vintage Series earns its praise: new ones played on Denmark Street were a cut above any recent Gibson, a 2021 LS-129 Custom with OX4 pickups and 50s wiring is its owner's best-sounding single-cut ever, and owners say Tokai Japan is the one brand they buy sight unseen, a guitar that can be sold on for what it cost if it disappoints. Owners upgrade freely, Seymour Duncan 59s, OX4 medium winds with 50s wiring, a Duesenberg trem, and the thin poly finish is acknowledged as the thing that puts some people off. Buyers in the United States are pointed to Zenmarket rather than eBay for a purchase from Japan.