1982 Tokai Love Rock LS-60

1982 Tokai Love Rock LS-60 (Serial # 2011220) in excellent playable and display condition. Mahogany neck, head stock is 14 degrees. Hand made bone nut.

Tokai did not make the 1982 LS-60 in a Black finish. According to the Tokai Registry the Black finish was available on the LS-50 and LS-80. The frets on this guitar are factory painted and appears to be a custom or factory knock off. It is a genuine 1982 Tokai Love Rock. It does not match records that can be found on the Tokai Registry Web Site however those records only indicate factory specifications not custom design or special order guitars. This is a rare original and offered at a great price. 

 As I mentioned Tokai has a registry web site you can verify the serial numbers of when and where factory Tokai guitars were made. I recommend anyone looking for a Tokai visit this site. Reverb does not allow me to post this for some reason. Just Google Tokai guitar registry.

Tokai became so efficient at making these guitars in the 1970’s and 1980’s that Gibson filed a law suit, demanding they halt production.  Today, China makes a cheaper imitation but does not hold up to the early Japanese quality of these old Tokai’s. These Chinese and Korean Tokai copies sell all over eBay for a few hundred dollars and some reach for a premium price claiming to hold the quality that the early Japan models carry. 

I've been told this guitar is better made than the newer Gibson's rolling off the production line. I think this Tokai under priced but the market sets the current value and what people are willing to pay.

Make me a reasonable offer.

Below is some information copied from the Tokai Registry web site.

DateTokai ModelSerial # DecodingEarly 1977Les Paul Model1st digit = year1977 - 1979Les Paul Reborn1st digit = year1980Reborn Old1st digit = year1980-88Love Rocks1st digit = year1989+Love Rocks1st 2 digits = year

I also added a YouTube video from the seller that I purchased this guitar from a few years ago.  Hope this helps, if the link does not work the title on YouTube is: 1982 TOKAI LS 60 BB LES PAUL GUITAR REVIEW & DEMONSTRATION