https://blog.acefour.org/tags/factory-tour/ Recent content in Factory Tour on AceFour's Notebook Hugo en Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.acefour.org/posts/dr-grabow-tour-sparta-nc/ Sun, 22 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000 https://blog.acefour.org/posts/dr-grabow-tour-sparta-nc/ <p>Meet up with Pipe Smoker&rsquo;s Den and Dr. Grabow Collectors forum members to tour the factory in Sparta, NC. Sparta is a quiet little town and next to the <a href="https://alleghanyinn.com/">Allegheny Inn</a> was a <a href="https://laconiaaleworks.com/">Laconia Ale Works</a>. Great beers and on Thursday was open from 4pm to 9pm.</p> <p>We met Rick Wooten, VP and General Manager of International Pipes &amp; Accessories LLC at the <a href="https://www.drgrabow.net/">Dr. Grabow</a> factory. At the height of manufacturing they were producing over a million pipes a year. Now that a lot of drug stores stopped carrying smoking products their biggest customer is the Army PX.</p>