diff --git a/avro/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/StringVisitor.java b/avro/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/StringVisitor.java
index 8ad4b7a4..67bd54e5 100644
--- a/avro/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/StringVisitor.java
+++ b/avro/src/main/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/StringVisitor.java
@@ -11,7 +11,6 @@
 import tools.jackson.databind.introspect.AnnotatedClass;
 import tools.jackson.databind.jsonFormatVisitors.JsonStringFormatVisitor;
 import tools.jackson.databind.jsonFormatVisitors.JsonValueFormat;
-import tools.jackson.databind.type.TypeFactory;
 
 public class StringVisitor extends JsonStringFormatVisitor.Base
     implements SchemaBuilder
@@ -38,7 +37,8 @@ public void enumTypes(Set<String> enums) {
     public Schema builtAvroSchema() {
         // Unlike Jackson, Avro treats characters as an int with the java.lang.Character class type.
         if (_type.hasRawClass(char.class) || _type.hasRawClass(Character.class)) {
-            return AvroSchemaHelper.numericAvroSchema(NumberType.INT, TypeFactory.defaultInstance().constructType(Character.class));
+            // should we construct JavaType for `Character.class` in case of primitive or... ?
+            return AvroSchemaHelper.numericAvroSchema(NumberType.INT, _type);
         }
         // [dataformats-binary#179]: need special help with UUIDs, to coerce into Binary
         //   (could actually be
diff --git a/avro/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/DateTimeVisitor_builtAvroSchemaTest.java b/avro/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/DateTimeVisitor_builtAvroSchemaTest.java
index 6b187d85..983e367e 100644
--- a/avro/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/DateTimeVisitor_builtAvroSchemaTest.java
+++ b/avro/src/test/java/tools/jackson/dataformat/avro/schema/DateTimeVisitor_builtAvroSchemaTest.java
@@ -26,8 +26,6 @@
 @RunWith(Parameterized.class)
 public class DateTimeVisitor_builtAvroSchemaTest {
 
-    private static final TypeFactory TYPE_FACTORY = TypeFactory.defaultInstance();
-
     @Parameter(0)
     public Class<?> testClass;
 
@@ -73,14 +71,16 @@ public static Collection<?> testData() {
                         LocalTime.class,
                         JsonParser.NumberType.INT,
                         Schema.Type.INT,
-                        "time-millis"},
+                        "time-millis"
+                }
         });
     }
 
     @Test
     public void builtAvroSchemaTest() {
         // GIVEN
-        DateTimeVisitor dateTimeVisitor = new DateTimeVisitor(TYPE_FACTORY.constructSimpleType(testClass, null));
+        final TypeFactory tf = TypeFactory.createDefaultInstance();
+        DateTimeVisitor dateTimeVisitor = new DateTimeVisitor(tf.constructSimpleType(testClass, null));
         dateTimeVisitor.numberType(givenNumberType);
 
         // WHEN