DeWalt tools are not great, to reveal my bias up-front. This one, however, is especially bad. The fence is a piece of stamped steel that is not very precise. Two plastic (ABS, I think, not even nylon) rectangles cover the fence and then a shoddily cast alignment mechanism sits off the back end. The alignment mechanism can rotate about 10 degrees in either direction along the stamped steel fence (not intentionally, either, it just sucks and is imprecise) and there is a lot of slop in the whole design.