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This section provides an overview for whetstones as well as their applications and principles. Also, please take a look at the list of 4 whetstone manufacturers and their company rankings. Here are the top-ranked whetstone companies as of July, 2025: 1.Falcon Tool Company Inc., 2.NORITAKE, 3.Gesswein Co, Inc..
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A whetstone is, in the broadest sense, a tool, such as "a tool for cutting and polishing rocks and metals."
A whetstone is widely used in a variety of forms, from household to industrial applications.
For home use, a whetstone is commonly used to sharpen kitchen knives, often found in rectangular or block-shaped.
Industrial whetstone is often disk-shaped wheels with a mounting hole in the center that is attached to a power tool.
Whetstones are used in the following applications.
There are various types of bonding agents used in whetstones, depending on the application.
The most commonly used resinoid is made by a process called the "bakelite method."
Next, the principle of how whetstones grind workpieces is explained.
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Falcon Tool Company, Inc. is an American manufacturer based in Traverse City, Michigan, providing tools for industrial applications. The company’s product range includes files, commonly used in industrial jewelry, dental, and hobby industries, as well as abrasives and abrasive stones. The company also offers various cutting tools, including carbide burs and tungsten vanadium steel burs, commonly used for deburring, milling, and finishing. It further provides diamond tools, brushes and wood sticks, and related equipment, such as air grinders and air profilers.
Disco Corporation is a producer of precision cutting and grinding machines founded in Japan last 1937. Aside from manufacturing services, they also offer maintenance, training, refurbishment, and lease of precision cutting and grinding materials. This company is entirely based in Japan with Tokyo as the location for its Head Office. Its three branch offices are located in Osaka, Kyushu, and Sendai. They also have three plants, two of which are in Hiroshima namely, Kure and Kuwabata, while their Chino Plant is in Nagano.
NORITAKE CO., LIMITED, established in 1904 as Nippon Toki Kaisha, Ltd., is a Japanese manufacturer headquartered in Nagoya, Aichi, specializing in tableware and technological products. The company crafts fine porcelain and bone china Western-style tableware, glassware, and cutlery, catering to residential and commercial settings. The company also offers ceramics in various forms, including electronic ceramic powder and engineering ceramics, thick film circuit substrates, and vacuum fluorescent displays. Other offerings include provides grinding and polishing tools, such as grinding and cubic boron nitride (CBN) wheels, as well as coated abrasives. The company further offers filtration systems and thin cut master (TCM) machines.
Gesswein Co, Inc., established in 1914 and headquartered in Bridgeport, Connecticut, is a distributor of jewelers' tools and supplies. The company offers a wide range of products, including additive manufacturing tools, abrasives, bench tools, burs & drills, casting tools, cleaning tools, dust collection tools, engraving tools, power tools, and more. These products are utilized by professionals in the jewelry and metalworking industries for precision work. Gesswein Co, Inc. also provides various services, such as operations review, product sampling, account maintenance, quality control, and price matching.
Ranking as of July 2025
Derivation MethodRank | Company | Click Share |
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1 | Falcon Tool Company Inc. |
50.0%
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2 | NORITAKE |
20.0%
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3 | Gesswein Co, Inc. |
15.0%
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4 | DISCO Corporation |
15.0%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the whetstone page as of July 2025. Click share is defined as the total number of clicks for all companies during the period divided by the number of clicks for each company.Number of Employees
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*Including some distributors, etc.
*Including some distributors, etc.
Country | Number of Companies | Share (%) |
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2 | 66.7% |
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1 | 33.3% |
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TKX Co., Ltd.
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Grinding wheels for cemented carbide, stone, ceramics, glass, etc.
TKX Co., Ltd.
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■Features DPG (Diamond Pellet Grinding) wheels are capable of continuous high-precision grinding by using a soft bond that emphasizes sharpness and...
Naniwa Polishing Industry Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・High grinding and polishing work efficiency with sharp cutting ability. For all types of concrete repair work ・This specification and d...
Daigen Shokai Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・This is a cup whetstone for the old Daiichi Kikai band saw side grinder. - Grain size hardness is 80-P. 2 pieces for 1 car.
Daigen Shokai Co., Ltd.
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■Summary Convenient for cutting sheet metal, round bars, pipes, angles, stainless steel products, and more. Use with electric disc grinder. It's su...
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■Aka-Cut 700HV,150mm Cut-off wheel for precision cutting of soft and hard steels with a hardness of 150-700HV (40HRC) .The cut-off wheel measures 1...
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■Features The conventional alumina abrasive grains A, WA, and SA are further subdivided according to the application. This makes it possible to obt...
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■Features TRB (TKXRINGBUFF) whetstone is a whetstone with TKX's unique structure that has a rubber elastic layer and general whetstone characterist...
Naniwa Polishing Industry Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・Abrasive material: A ・Binder: B (resinoid) ・Maximum circumferential speed: 3,000m/min (50m/s) ・Shape edge type 1A 1D ■Applications O...
Daigen Shokai Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・This is a cup grindstone for the new Daiichi Kikai band saw side grinder. - Grain size hardness is 80-P. 2 pieces for 1 car.
Daigen Shokai Co., Ltd.
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■Summary - Convenient for cutting sheet metal, round bars, pipes, angles, stainless steel products, etc. ・Use with an electric disc grinder. - Sin...
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■Aka-Cut 400HV,150mm Cut-off wheel for precision cutting of non-ferrous metals with a hardness of 50–400HV (10HRC) .The cut-off wheel measures 150x...
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■Features 99X abrasive grain is a new single-crystal abrasive grain with moderate self-sharpening action, and provides a sharp cutting edge compara...
Naniwa Polishing Industry Co., Ltd.
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■Summary The Super Whetstone is a top-quality whetstone manufactured by Naniwa Abrasive Industry Co., Ltd., which has put together the technology t...
Naniwa Polishing Industry Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・Abrasive material: WA ・Binder: B (resinoid) ・Maximum circumferential speed: 3,000m/min (50m/s) ・Shape edge type 1D ■Applications Har...
Daigen Shokai Co., Ltd.
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■Summary ・Cup whetstone for band saw side polishing machine manufactured by Tenryu. - Grain size hardness is 100-N. 2 pieces for 1 car.
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■Summary A flat whetstone for sharpening circular saws.
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