An organic polymer-bonded grinding wheel made by wetting abrasive grain with a liquid plasticizer or pick-up agent, adding a powdered organic bond to said pick-up agent wetted abrasive grain, molding the abrasive pick-up agent powdered bond mix. and firing the molded article to cure the organic polymer in the bond and wherein the pick-up agent is composed of a mixture of furfuraldehyde and a rubber, particularly butadiene-acrylonitrile rubber.