I have been building up my home shop for years and have purchased a good deal of the tools in it from Amazon. I depend on the reviews left here to determine whether I should buy a certain item or not. I read ALL the reviews before I buy. Sometimes there are radically different reviews on the same product from different people that all sound like they know what they are talking about, though, so you just have to trust the overall rating. Lately, I have noticed that my projects seem less perfect than I think they should so I started looking to nicer tools. Without doubt, those nicer tools have made a difference in my work and I just wanted to tell any other woodworkers out there moving past the novice level that its ok to skimp on certain things, the things you can modify or may not use that often, but on certain tools, you just shouldn't... I recently decided that I didn't like the tearout that I always get crosscutting plywood on the table saw and cutting ANYTHING on the compound miter, radial arm, or small circular saw. They were all the original blades that came with the tools and were long in the tooth - besides being junk in the first place. The radial arm blade I replaced with a Freud from Home Depot (I was there, it was impulse). I liked it very much and it was at that point that I decided that I should replace the table saw and miter saw and also my little 6" circular saw. Having had such good luck with the Freud, I was happy that I was not going to have to spend $100 on every blade. I replaced the 6" saw blade next with a Freud. As soon as it arrived, I ran it through a few cuts and although it was better than the stock blade, it was not at all what I was hoping for. That was one of those reviews where some people said they hated it and some loved it. Next I started looking at replacing the compound miter blade, also with a Freud, that again had the same mixed reviews sparking a feeling of unease. I was also looking to replace the table saw blade at the same time so ran across this model. I went back and forth between the WWII and a Freud combination blade, read the reviews, reread the reviews, trying to ken whether I could really justify spending this much more. How could they be that much different??? Well, I ordered the Freud LU91M010 (for the chop saw) and the Forrest WWII and now I understand. The Freud cuts and cuts smoothly. It's ok. It still does leave some tearout. The WWII, though. That is money well spent. I put it through its paces and it impressed me every time. It does everything that the other reviewers say. It is smooth. It is silent. It left no tearout in anything I ran through it (birch ply, mahog ply, maple, soft pine, red oak). I did not purchase the stabilizer. I am glad I decided to allow myself to spend the extra money. I will not be so quick to look at Freud blades now, as 2 out of 3 that I purchased did not perform as they should and $50 is still not nothing.