Tokai Love Rock LS-50
guitar
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Why this number?
The typical used price is the median of 14 used sales observed in the last 24 months, with outliers removed and the figure rounded. An observed sale is often the last asking price rather than a confirmed hammer price.
| Typical used price | €1,250 | median sold, rounded |
| Most sold between | €1,050–€1,550 | 25th to 75th percentile, same window |
| Window | last 24 months | the tightest of 90 days, 6 months and 24 months with 8 used sales |
| Sample | 14 used sales | thin data, treat as a rough guide |
| By condition | same as typical | very good, median of 8 sales, same window |
| Time to sell | — | only counted from listings we watch start to finish; not enough yet |
| Sell-through | 0% | 8 watched listings resolved, 6 months |
| Didn’t sell here | €1,400 | median ask of 8 listings that ended without a sale, 6 months, 12% above typical used; all from Japan; 8 withdrawn by the seller |
| Live asks | €1,305 | typical ask across 45 listings, 4% above typical used |
| Outliers | dropped | beyond 10× the product’s own median: bundles, parts, typos |
| All-time | €990 | 77 used sales, 2015–2026; not used for deals |
| Sales on record | 77 | all-time, all platforms |
Typical prices are rounded (to 5 / 10 / 50 / 100 by size, in whichever currency you read); asks and the chart are exact. As of 18 October 2026. Full method, including what each badge means
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-50
The LS-50 was the entry point of Tokai's first Les Paul-style range, the model below the LS-60: a three-piece maple cap where the LS-60 has two pieces, on the lower-tier specification, a thin polyurethane finish, a 14-degree headstock, chrome hardware and uncovered Gotoh humbuckers wired through a circuit board. The 18-degree headstock, nitro and nickel hardware begin at the LS-80. The same guitar wore three headstock names: Les Paul Reborn (1978-79), Reborn Old (a few months of 1980) and Love Rock from 1980 on; the earliest carry inked rather than stamped serial numbers, the so-called inkies, and the Reborn-badged ones fetch more.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1985. The body is thinner than an LS-80's or a modern LS's, a 1984 measured 51.5 mm, a 1985 about 2 mm less mahogany than a 2008 LS165, because bodies were hand-carved with no fixed thickness. Until mid-1980 the model number was stamped into the fingerboard behind the last fret, then moved to a sticker on the back of the headstock with an ink mark in the neck pickup cavity; a refret sands the fingerboard stamp away. By 1983-85 the specification drifted: some 1985 LS-50s carry a one-piece body and a 17-degree headstock, the export models a dimpled headstock, and the 57 PAF MKII pickups fitted then are high-output ceramics rather than PAF-style, so a mid-80s LS-50, LS-60 and LS-80 are told apart by back pieces, veneer and finish rather than by the catalogue.
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.
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eBay United States
eBay Germany
39 more live · €566–€2,479 · typical ask €1,305 · 28 Japan · 8 United States
- €566good ·
Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 5 days agocheck before you go - €1,061€189 under (15%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,061€189 under (15%)very good ·
United States · Reverb · confirmed 5 days ago - €1,070€180 under (14%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,083€167 under (13%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,100€150 under (12%)good · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,117€133 under (11%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,124€126 under (10%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,150€100 under (8%)good · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,152€98 under (8%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
29 more · €1,155–€2,479 · Japan, United States, Australia, United Kingdom and 1 more
- €1,155€95 under (8%)very good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,159€91 under (7%)good · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,165€85 under (7%)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,199about typical (4% under)very good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,293about typical (3% over)good · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,297about typical (4% over)good · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,305about typical (4% over)very good ·
Australia · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago - €1,37710% over typicalvery good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,38110% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,39512% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,41113% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 6 days ago
- €1,42214% over typicalvery good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,42814% over typicalvery good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,44716% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,44916% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,46017% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,57626% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,58627% over typicalgood ·
United Kingdom · eBay Germany · confirmed 2 days ago - €1,60028% over typicalvery good · United States · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,60528% over typicalexcellent · United States · Reverb · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,62330% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 4 days ago
- €1,65532% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,70536% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,73339% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €1,80444% over typicalvery good · Japan · Reverb · confirmed 3 days ago
- €1,84147% over typicalgood ·
Germany · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago - €2,16173% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay United States · confirmed 5 days ago
- €2,24780% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days ago
- €2,47998% over typicalgood · Japan · eBay Germany · confirmed 6 days agocheck this is the same guitar
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 77 of them, placed by the day the ad went up. The line follows the middle of the sales around each point, with the middle half behind it, and breaks wherever nothing sold nearby. Condition is mixed, so some of the spread is a mint against a fair rather than the market moving.
Recent sales by listing date
14 used sales · last 24 months · middle half €1,050–€1,550 · thin
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2026 | €1,641$1,900 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Jul 2026 | €665$745 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Jul 2026 | €987$1,108 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Jul 2026 | €1,253$1,452 as sold | very good |  Slovakia | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Jun 2026 | €1,564$1,752 as sold | excellent | United Kingdom | 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 77 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 May 2026 | €1,460$1,690 as sold | good |  China | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Apr 2026 | €1,606$1,799 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Jan 2026 | €864$1,000 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Dec 2025 | €1,240$1,436 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Oct 2025 | €1,219$1,411 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Jun 2025 | €1,637$1,895 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 May 2025 | €840$972 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Feb 2025 | €1,442$1,669 as sold | good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 4 Dec 2024 | €1,291$1,495 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2024 | €1,135$1,314 as sold | very good |  Ireland | Reverb | Details |
| 26 Sept 2024 | €993$1,150 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Jun 2024 | €1,123$1,300 as sold | good | China | Reverb | Details |
| 20 May 2024 | €1,452$1,681 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 14 May 2024 | €1,114$1,250 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Apr 2024 | €1,726$1,998 as sold | excellent |  France | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Apr 2024 | €982$1,100 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 10 Apr 2024 | €1,119$1,295 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Apr 2024 | €974$1,128 as sold | very good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Mar 2024 | €718$831 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Oct 2023 | €998$1,155 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Apr 2023 | €858$995 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Feb 2023 | €1,032$1,195 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Jan 2023 | €821$950 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Jan 2023 | €1,246$1,399 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jan 2023 | €1,209$1,400 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Oct 2022 | €668$750 as sold | fair | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Oct 2022 | €749$867 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Sept 2022 | €897$1,038 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Sept 2022 | €590$662 as sold | good |  Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Aug 2022 | €561$650 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 17 May 2022 | €1,331$1,541 as sold | very good | Germany | Reverb | Details |
| 22 Apr 2022 | €1,404$1,625 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Feb 2022 | €836$937 as sold | good | France | Reverb | Details |
| 17 Nov 2021 | €1,360$1,575 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Nov 2021 | €537$603 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Sept 2021 | €1,114$1,290 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Aug 2021 | €1,468$1,700 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Jun 2021 | €863$999 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Apr 2021 | €1,294$1,500 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Apr 2021 | €907$1,050 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Apr 2021 | €649$752 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 16 Mar 2021 | €1,448$1,625 as sold | very good |  Indonesia | Reverb | Details |
| 19 Feb 2021 | €970$1,123 as sold | excellent | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Feb 2021 | €1,723$1,995 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Dec 2020 | €687$795 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.
Where it’s cheapest right now
What sellers are asking today, by country. Asking prices, not sales; shipping, fees and any customs or import VAT between you and the seller are not included.
| Country | Live | Median ask | Cheapest ask | Cheapest vs typical |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Japan | 34 | €1,229 | €566 | €684 under (55%) |
| United States | 8 | €1,400 | €1,061 | €189 under (15%) |
| Australia | 1 | €1,305 | €1,305 | 4% over typical |
| United Kingdom | 1 | €1,586 | €1,586 | 27% over typical |
| Germany | 1 | €1,841 | €1,841 | 47% over typical |
In one paragraph
The page's figures as one paragraph, assembled for quoting; not written by hand.
45 Tokai Love Rock LS-50 listings are live right now, from €566 asking; the ones that sell go for a median of €1,250 over the last 24 months across 14 recorded sales, with most examples landing between €1,050 and €1,550. Figures computed 18 October 2026 by Doirado from cross-platform listing data.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 73 discussion threads among 57 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners date theirs from 1978 to 1985, and the tone is warm for the cheapest model of the range: it is called underrated more than once, several say it is by no means inferior to the Gibsons they own, a few call it the best Les Paul they have played, one side-by-side found it grittier and snarlier than an LS-100, and the early ones are said to age as well as the dearer models. Two weighed examples sat around 3.9-4.1 kg. Some temper it: it was the least luxurious model of the range, and one owner says a Reborn stands alongside a Gibson Standard rather than killing it. The stock Gotohs and circuit board divide the room, several rewired or fitted PAF-style sets and describe the change as lifting a blanket off the sound, while others keep the originals and rate the uncovered Gotohs above a modern Gibson's. Selling one is a regret repeated across the threads. A plain-top Love Rock with a 1981-range serial may be a 2010 reissue: the Made in Japan line on the headstock is the tell.