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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 August, 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 August 2025
Derivation MethodRank | Company | Click Share |
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1 | Falcon Tool Company Inc. |
52.0%
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2 | NORITAKE |
20.0%
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3 | DISCO Corporation |
16.0%
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4 | Gesswein Co, Inc. |
12.0%
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Derivation Method
The ranking is calculated based on the click share within the whetstone page as of August 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
Company with a History
*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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Oriental Diamond Tool Research Institute Co., Ltd.
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Resin-based and metal-based bonds are often used for diamond wheels, but vitrified-based bonds have not generally been produced. However, our compa...
Marto Co., Ltd.
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■Features CBN (cubic boron nitride) and a layer of metal binder abrasive grains are continuously molded onto the outer periphery of the rigid and h...
Japan Resibon Co., Ltd.
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■God speed. Our No.1 cutting speed ・Fastest cutting speed in Resibon history (as of September 2019) ・Reduce work time
Marto Co., Ltd.
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■Features The CBN blade (B) has the same structure as the metal bond type (M), but the binder (B) is a resin that has much higher heat resistance t...
Iida Iron Works Co., Ltd.
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Diamond wheels are for carbide. Some models come with a grindstone as standard equipment.
Cains Co., Ltd.
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Ideal for ferrous steel materials that are difficult to machine with diamond tools.
Iida Iron Works Co., Ltd.
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PA is for high speed steel. GC is for carbide.
Sowa Kasei Co., Ltd.
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■Ceramic diamond fiber whetstone Seraton Diamond combines alumina fibers and diamond abrasive grains using unique fiber orientation technology. The...
JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features By developing an innovative manufacturing method to uniformize ultra-fine diamond particles with the industry's smallest particle size of...
Marto Co., Ltd.
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■Features This is an all-blade type (no base metal) cutting whetstone manufactured by using green carborantum (high-purity silicon carbide) as the ...
Japan Resibon Co., Ltd.
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■Recommended cutting wheels - Cuts very well and lasts a long time ・The 0.8mm type has a smoother start of cutting.
Oriental Diamond Tool Research Institute Co., Ltd.
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SHR (Super Heat Resisting Resin Bond) wheels have significantly improved the short lifespan, which was the weak point of resin bonds up until now, ...
K’s Material Co., Ltd.
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JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features A resin wheel that maintains its sharpness well and enables stable machining even when efficiency is increased.It contributes to reducing...
JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features Because of their strength, metal wheels are often used for high-efficiency grinding in the tool and mold fields, ceramics, and aerospace ...
Sowa Kasei Co., Ltd.
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■Selaton mini A mini series that is a smaller version of Selaton. Sizes range from 0.3 x 0.3 mm to 1 x 2 mm and are ideal for fine lapping finishin...
JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features A resin bond wheel that excels in high precision and high efficiency machining. Application to high-precision grinding by optimizing abra...
Japan Resibon Co., Ltd.
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■Able to cut edges and cut quickly. ・Edge cutting is possible due to the offset shape ・Pursuing a lower cutting position so that you can cut clos...
Iida Iron Works Co., Ltd.
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Borazon wheels are for HSS. Some models come with a grindstone as standard equipment.
Toyo Polishing Industry Co., Ltd.
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■About vitrified whetstones ・This whetstone uses clay, glass, etc. as raw materials and is fired at a high temperature of 1,200 to 1,300 degrees. ...
International Diamond Co., Ltd.
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■Characteristics ・Continuous work is possible because it is a heat-resistant pound ・Long life due to thick abrasive layer ・Vivid colors with cle...
JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features A resin bond wheel that excels in high precision and high efficiency machining. Application to high-precision grinding by optimizing abra...
JTEKT Grinding Tools Co., Ltd.
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■Features This is an electroplated CBN wheel used for high precision profile grinding of CVT ball grooves, compressor vane grooves, etc. It is poss...
SHIN-EI GRINDING WHEELS MFG. CO., LTD.
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■Features Offset type cutting wheels can be used with an attached flange and allow for deeper cuts than straight types. By reducing the amount rema...
Miniter Co., Ltd.
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■Features ・This is a professional stick whetstone that pursues not only quality and grinding performance but also ease of use. ・We have a rich li...
Sowa Kasei Co., Ltd.
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■Diamond whetstone A diamond whetstone is a cutting tool used for final finishing. It can be used to refine the surface by removing surface defects...
SHIN-EI GRINDING WHEELS MFG. CO., LTD.
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■Features By using zirconia material with high cutting power and increasing the diameter of the grinding wheel to 108Φ, it can be used at high circ...