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Machinist Stone

Fail

Shoppers spend only $43K a year here, so Machinist Stone is a Fail.

Flapen Score
45
45 / 100
Ranks 5,778 of 9,536 Tools & Home Improvement niches · −3 vs the category median of 48
Market size
$43K/yr45K searches / yr
90-day growth
-13.4%search demand this quarter
Competition
49%top-5 click share · 13 brands · 114 sellers

Flapen Score

Machinist Stone against its category

The dotted line is the Tools & Home Improvement average. Past it, Machinist Stone is stronger. Inside it, weaker.

45Fail
Big MarketTrendingHigh ConversionOpen MarketLow ReturnsPrice rangeAvg priceNo Dominant BrandLow Review BarrierQuality Gap
This niche Category average

Market

The Machinist Stone market on Amazon at a glance

Shoppers on Amazon United States searched for Machinist Stone 45K times last year and spent an estimated $43K. The top 5 brands take 88% of clicks. Flapen scores it 45 out of 100, a Fail.

01 · Demand

3.0% of searches ended in a purchase last week.

Shoppers searched for this 45K times in the last 12 months. That counts every search on Amazon United States for this niche's terms. In the latest week, 3.0% of those searches ended in a purchase. Searches in the last 90 days moved -13.4% against the 90 days before. Searches, conversion and average price together put the market at an estimated $43K a year.

Searches, last 12 months
45K
Growth, 90 days vs prior 90
-13.4%
Conversion, latest week
3.0%
Market size, estimated
$43Ka year
Peak month
December1.5× the quietest month
Top search term
machinist stone11K searches a year

02 · Price

A sale here is worth $31.48.

Listings sell for $31.48 on average, from $8.05 to $124.01. Amazon reports units sold in ranges. This niche sold 2K to 2K a year. The average listing sells 0 to 100 of them. At $31.48 that is $0 to $3K a year per listing.

Average price
$31.48inside the $15 to $100 sweet spot
Price range
$8.05–$124.01
Amazon United States median price
$24.38across 115,062 niches
Units sold a year
2K–2K
Units per listing a year
0–100
Revenue per listing a year
$0–$3K
Returns
1.2%of orders · Amazon United States median 2.1%

03 · Entry bar

The bar here is low.

62% of listings pay for placement with sponsored ads. 100% ship with Prime. On an average day, 0.0% of listings are out of stock. The average listing ranks #367 within Sharpening Stones. It carries 640 reviews at 4.49 stars, so a new listing needs social proof before a better product.

Sponsored listings
62%
Prime listings
100%
Out of stock, average day
0.0%
Average rank
#367in Sharpening Stones
Average rating
4.49 starsAmazon United States average 4.42 stars
Average reviews
640per listing
Listings tracked
29

04 · Newcomers

Amazon counts 0 of last year's 1 launches as successful.

1 products launched here in the last 12 months. Amazon counts 0 of them as successful launches, new products that hit its first-year sales bar. The brands on the shelf have sold for 71 months on average, so the names here are established.

Launched, last 12 months
1
Successful launches
0Amazon's first-year sales bar
Average brand age
71 months

Products

Top Machinist Stone products & what they sell for

Every tracked product: its share of the shelf, its reviews, and its price.

Competition

Competition: brands, sellers & click share

The top 5 products take 49% of clicks. Leaders hold, but buyers still shop past them.

$0$2K$4K$6K$9K1101001K10K Review Count Sales
Beatable (≤4.3★) Contested Strong incumbent (>4.7★)

Brands

13 rising

Sellers

114

Top-5 brand share

88%

Top 20: 100%

Top-5 click share

49%

Top 20: 89%

Open market

10%

  • Norton73%
  • Whitby Abrasives6%
  • CBRIGHT4%
  • Raneped4%
  • Sharp Pebble2%
  • LWCUSNJ2%
  • Open — no brand owns it (7 brands, 10%)

Demand

Machinist Stone search demand

Weekly searches over the year, seasonality beneath. Pick a range.

1K800Holiday '24Prime Day '25Holiday '25SepDecMarJunAugNovMarMay

No pronounced peak months · busiest ÷ quietest = 1.5×

Search terms

Top Machinist Stone search terms shoppers use

The exact words shoppers type, with yearly volume, growth, and conversion.

  • machinist stone11K/yr
  • norton sharpening stone12K/yr
  • india stone7K/yr
  • oil stone6K/yr
  • norton stone4K/yr
  • norton india stone3K/yr
  • oil stones for sharpening knives2K/yr

Reviews and returns

What reviews say buyers love and hate about Machinist Stone

We read the reviews and the return reasons for every product selling here.

24%of positive reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
28%of negative reviews mention “Quality-Overall”
1.2%of orders come back
“Not great quality”
A buyer, on “Quality-Overall”28% of negative reviews mention the same topic

Every topic

Every topic buyers talk about, one row each.

Red shows the share of negative reviews and green the share of positive reviews, biggest topic first. Open a row to read what they wrote.

16 topics

NegativePositive

FAQ

Common Machinist Stone questions

Answered from the same tracked data.