Tokai Love Rock LS-70
guitar
Has sold for €970 over 2017–2023, across 8 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. 1 for sale, from €1,335.
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-70
The LS-70 name covers two Japanese Love Rocks, the number being the yen price of its day. The 1984-85 LS-70 sits just under the nitro, nickel-hardware LS-80, a poly finish, chrome hardware, a short tenon and Tokai 57 PAF pickups with a sticker on the baseplate, in a hot ceramic version of about 18.5k or a lower-output alnico-sounding one, with the model stamped in the neck-pickup cavity. The 2002-2010 LS-70 and LS-70F are the entry Japanese model of their years: a mahogany body with a maple cap under a flamed veneer (the lamination shows once the pickups are out), rosewood board, short tenon, in flame or violin finish, and sold at about £700 new in 2010; the same guitar was renumbered LS98 as the price rose. Owners date theirs to 1984-85 and to 2002-2010.
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.
1 local pickup ad in Germany, on Kleinanzeigen. Showing 1 local pickup ad in Germany, on Kleinanzeigen. Local pickup near you, in Germany: 1 ad on Kleinanzeigen.
eBay United StatesPrice history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 8 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 30 Jul 2023 | €1,896$2,195 as sold | very good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Feb 2023 | €950$1,100 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 May 2022 | €1,036$1,200 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Nov 2021 | €2,137$2,399 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Dec 2019 | €604$699 as sold | very 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 Marketplaces do not publish the day a sale closed; each of these had sold by the time we recorded it, in August 2026 and October 2026.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 8 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Oct 2017 | €980$1,100 as sold | excellent |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 11 Sept 2017 | €646$725 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Jul 2017 | €605$700 as sold | excellent |  Russia | 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: United States €1,335 · before shipping
8 recorded sales of the Tokai Love Rock LS-70 from 2017–2023, all-time around €970. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €1,335 before shipping. Figures computed 20 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 8 discussion threads among 14 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Even at the lower end of the Japanese range the LS-70 gets kept: one owner will never part with it, another calls the 1984 pickups a great, versatile design, a 1985 with Seymour Duncan Antiquities fitted sounds great to its owner, and the hardware, electronics and pickups are described as good quality throughout.