I built a dedicated horizontal belt grinder,it has three different wheels and a flat platen that I can grind on without changing anything. I do the final profiling of all my parts,liners,scales blade tangs and springs. It's much easyer to grind to a scribed line when I can rest the part flat on the tool rest and look down on it,all my lines come out perpendicular. You will realy enjoy using your grinder in the horizontal position and when you get tired of switching it back and forth you will see why I built a dedicated horizontal grinder. I sell plans and instructions for the one I designd,let me know when your interested in building one. It's not an absolute necessity but it sure makes folder building easyer.