Schulte’s / Max Schulte Smooth Freehand Estate Briar Pipe, Unsmoked

Description

Schulte’s was an American pipe tobacconist, located in New Jersey in the second half of the 20th century. Like many pipe stores, Schulte’s sold house brand pipes, but unlike most pipe stores, many of these house brand pipes were made by the store’s owner, Max Schulte. Similarly to a few other American pipe tobacconists, like Boswell’s, Schulte himself would divide his time between sales and both restoring and making pipes, during which time he served as a teacher in the craft to a young Jack H. Weinberger.

Based on the Schulte’s pipes I’ve handled over the last few months, it appears that you really could go into the shop and have Max make whatever kind of pipe you wanted, and it would always be a good pipe. If you wanted something traditional, he could make it. If you wanted something a little more modern, he could make that too. This is an example of the latter, a Danish-inspired freehand, with a nice, wide chamber, and plenty of bird’s-eye grain around its large bowl.

This pipe is completely unsmoked, with an original bowl coating.

 

Details:

Length: 6″ / 137.1mm

Bowl Width: 0.92 / 23.36mm

Bowl Depth: 1.48″ / 37.59mm

Weight: 1.6oz / 48g