Mine (very secondhand) came with an odd blade - 80 tooth Freud, probably intended for plastics.
It leaves a very fine finish, and I like it, generally speaking, BUT it isn't negative rake (almost no rake but still slightly positive). I have had it chuck small offcuts around on occasions, which is quite an unpleasant surprise when it happens.
So I'd strongly recommend negative rake, although not having one, I can't tell you how much better they are.
Incidentally, being a leftie, I tend to feed stock in from the left, which is also where the clamp is. It's an old saw and only has one clamp. The adjustable stop block is on the right, under the chunky induction motor.
This is OK when you're cutting long pieces, but if you're making a number of small blocks, which I often do, you end up with the off-cut hidden entirely under the motor as the blade comes down. That's when you can get scary kickback. The cut is made, and the offcut moves slightly and catches the teeth as the blade is raised back up to its starting position.
So I use a push-stick on the right to keep the piece hard against the stop block, and/or leave the blade down until it's stopped spinning. A clamp either side would probably fix the problem (but slower for repeat cuts), and neg rake would be safer, probably.
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