I have a small home shop (Bridgeport, lathe, benchtop cnc) and am looking for a hard material removal device.

I often outsource part of my projects (start with laser cut blanks, or have complex geometry wired, then I finish it up) to reduce costs.

I find myself working with more hard materials (S7 52-54RC has become the material of choice in one of my hobbies), so being able to work with it after hardening would be helpful.

At the mold shop where I work, this would just be a matter of putting a sine plate or a fixture on a surface grinder and working it down. And so naturally I have been watching Craigslist for a surface grinder. So far, I have found 110v to be scarce, and usually these machines are rather large for my shop.

This morning I got thinking (dangerous, I know) that maybe there's another machine to do what I need. Mostly I want to be steps, angles, or bevels on mostly finished parts. I don't have a need to precisely square up stock etc, so maybe a surface grinder is just way over kill?

Is there perhaps another grinding device that could suit my needs? In the wood working world, a 2 in 1 sander (belt/disc) with a nice table and miter slide would do nicely... I just need better control/clamping for metal (I think).

Is there anything between 'pedestal grinder' and 'surface grinder'?

Do any of you know if there are small size precision surface grinders/machine laps out there? I’m thinking no larger than four or five inches travel, but capable of producing highly flat (<0.0002 inch) surfaces?

There’s lots of companies that produce good larger machines, but I’m willing to dump extra money for the small size.