Incoming - Rare Schulte Archtop I was forced to buy

[Easy2grasp]

This popped up on FB marketplace. I posted about it in the For Sale area. Then I couldn't stop thinking about it.
I pulled the trigger and decided to buy it myself after vowing not to sell or buy another guitar for 3 years. I only lasted 3 months. But this is really a rarity from a well-known Philadelphia area luthier who passed away about 7 years ago. He did modifications for Billy Bean back in the '60's. I will update everyone when it gets here.

[mr. beaumont]

I absolutely love it.

[Easy2grasp]

It comes with this cool gig bag that shouts 1960's!

[customxke]

ES350T tailpiece, Kay pick guard, looks like maybe a Framus pickup.

[wintermoon]

Nice guy but eons ago I brought a very expensive guitar to him on a recommendation for repair and he decided to adjust the truss rod and promptly put a big chip in the headstock right in front of me. Nobody's perfect but unfortunately for me that day he wasn't. That was the last time I saw him. Hope it works out for you though.

[QsDuesBlues]

I remember seeing a couple of Eric Schulte archtops a good few years back - they had bodies very akin to the early Framus 'AZ-10' florentine cutaway models - and those fingerboard 'broken-diamond' inlays on your pictured Schulte archtop are again very Framus-esque......maybe Mr Schulte had worked for the Framus company way back when.....?

Here's one of those 'AZ' style Schulte archtops...........from over 40 years ago - it does indeed look a very desirable instrument........