Patent ID: 7281332

Claim:
A portable cutting tool comprising: a cutting tool main body having a saw blade for cutting a workpiece and a motor for driving to rotate the saw blade; and a base for guiding the cutting tool main body along a surface of the workpiece; wherein an amount of the saw blade projected from a lower face of the base can be adjusted by pivoting the cutting tool main body relative to the base, wherein the base and the cutting tool main body are inclinably connected such that the saw blade can be projected from a vicinity of an intersection between a side face of the base and the lower face of the base, and a parallelism between the saw blade and the side face of the base is made to be able to be adjusted, wherein a support shaft constituting a fulcrum of the pivoting includes a first screw portion, a portion of the tool main body is formed with a second screw portion screwable to the first screw portion, and a torsional spring is disposed between the first screw portion and the second screw portion, and wherein the parallelism between a side face of the saw blade and the side face of the base is adiustable by pivoting the support shaft relative to the cutting tool main body.