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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 March, 2025: 1.Falcon Tool Company Inc., 2.NORITAKE, 3.DISCO Corporation.
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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 March 2025
Derivation MethodRank | Company | Click Share |
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1 | Falcon Tool Company Inc. |
50.0%
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2 | NORITAKE |
22.2%
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3 | DISCO Corporation |
16.7%
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4 | Gesswein Co, Inc. |
11.1%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the whetstone page as of March 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
Newly Established Company
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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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Kuroda Co., Ltd.
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