While the saw works great as I used it to cut through some interior doors I was replacing but it has a big design flaw!  There is a guide plate that has about an inch on one side of the blade and over three inches on the other.  If you were making a cross cut and wanted to slide this guide against a straight edge you would want to use the 3+ inch side to have more support for the saw, right?  The makers of this saw built the motor so low to the guide plate that it cannot slide against anything more than an 1/8 tall.  This is really stupid.  The saw works with the guild plate if you are cutting something thin like plywood, because you can raise the saw up (making the cut less deep) to clear your straight edge. The solution: for cutting something thick like interior doors, where you might want to use a straight edge - you have to use the one inch side.  Not great support for the saw - but it works.