Tokai Love Rock LS-80
guitar
Has sold for €1,400 over 2015–2024, across 35 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. 6 for sale, from €2,419.
About the Tokai Love Rock LS-80
In Tokai's late-1970s Les Paul range the LS-80 is where the vintage-correct specification begins: an 18-degree headstock, nitrocellulose lacquer and nickel hardware, against the poly finish, 14-degree headstock and chrome of the LS-50 and LS-60 below it. It shipped with Gotoh PAF-style humbuckers, the DiMarzios only arrived at the LS-100, under a plain or lightly figured solid two-piece maple cap, with bound fret ends. Owners rank the 1978-1980 LS-80 among the golden-era models worth seeking out, and call it the flagship that made Tokai's name.
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 Reborn-badged ones fetch more. The vintage run spans 1978 to 1985, and the name returned on a Japanese-made LS-80 through the 2000s and early 2010s, with a slimmer 60s-style neck where the vintage ones are fatter. By 1984 the specification had drifted, a thin figured veneer over the maple, a stamped letter D on some fingerboards, and owners tell a mid-80s LS-50, 60 and 80 apart by nibs, veneer and finish rather than by the catalogue. Hardware is metric, so a replacement bridge needs metric posts. Until mid-1980 the model number was stamped into the fingerboard behind the last fret; later examples carry it on a headstock sticker or in the pickup cavity.
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 Germany
eBay United States
Price history
Every recorded sale, one point each: 35 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9 Dec 2024 | €1,511$1,750 as sold | good |  United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Jun 2024 | €1,464$1,695 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 12 Apr 2024 | €2,518$2,915 as sold | good |   Spain | Reverb | Details |
| 24 Dec 2023 | €1,464$1,695 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 25 Jul 2023 | €2,418$2,799 as sold | excellent | 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 35 recorded sales
| Listed | Price | Condition | From | Platform | The listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 20 Jun 2023 | €1,334$1,545 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 May 2023 | €1,693$1,900 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 8 Apr 2023 | €2,116$2,450 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Mar 2023 | €2,418$2,799 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Feb 2023 | €2,590$2,999 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Apr 2022 | €1,214$1,363 as sold | good |  Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 5 Mar 2022 | €1,252$1,450 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Jan 2022 | €1,251$1,450 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 15 Dec 2021 | €1,770$2,049 as sold | very good |  United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 3 Jul 2021 | €1,546$1,790 as sold | very good |  South Korea | Reverb | Details |
| 25 May 2021 | €1,154$1,295 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 20 Nov 2020 | €973$1,127 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 7 Nov 2020 | €1,248$1,445 as sold | excellent |  Switzerland | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Oct 2020 | €1,381$1,599 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2020 | €1,122$1,299 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Jun 2020 | €1,473$1,654 as sold | very good |  Belgium | Reverb | Details |
| 31 Mar 2020 | €1,246$1,399 as sold | excellent | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 2 Oct 2019 | €1,591$1,842 as sold | good | United Kingdom | Reverb | Details |
| 24 May 2019 | €1,154$1,336 as sold | good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 16 May 2019 | €1,583$1,833 as sold | very good |  Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 28 Feb 2019 | €1,664$1,868 as sold | very good | Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 18 Feb 2019 | €1,490$1,725 as sold | good | Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 23 Oct 2018 | €1,466$1,698 as sold | very good | Canada | Reverb | Details |
| 9 Sept 2018 | €652$732 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 11 May 2018 | €1,121$1,259 as sold | very good | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 6 Feb 2018 | €885$997 as sold | excellent | Japan | Reverb | Details |
| 1 Nov 2017 | €1,056$1,223 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 29 Jun 2017 | €1,069$1,200 as sold | good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Nov 2015 | €543$629 as sold | very good | United States | Reverb | Details |
| 14 Jul 2015 | €915$1,060 as sold | good | Canada | 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 €2,419 · before shipping
35 recorded sales of the Tokai Love Rock LS-80 from 2015–2024, all-time around €1,400. Too few in the last two years to quote a typical used price. Cheapest live €2,419 before shipping. Figures computed 17 October 2026.
What owners have said elsewhere
Paraphrased from 90 discussion threads among 44 owners, 2021-2026. No names, nothing quoted.
Owners date their vintage LS-80s from 1978 to 1985, with 2000s examples alongside, and the praise is broad: build, sustain and comfort, and several say it outplays the Gibsons they own or have owned, custom-shop ones included; more than one calls it the best guitar they have owned, and selling one is a regret repeated across the threads. Two weighed examples span 3.6 to 4.7 kg. The stock Gotoh pickups divide the room, many have swapped in boutique PAF-style sets and report the guitar opening up, while others say the originals beat a modern Gibson's and should stay. Not everyone is converted: one owner sold a 1981 that did nothing special for him, and another finds his 1980 quiet and unresonant beside his LS160S. Buyers are told to look for the Made in Japan line on the headstock: a 2010 reissue shares serial ranges with 1981 and carries it, and a 1981 never did.