Thank you for your informative posts.

I was wondering something. When I shopped for a saw at Home Depot, I couldn't find a ripcut-only, nor a crosscut-only, saw. They had only this Stanley 26" 11TPI 12point "fine finish" "multi-purpose" saw. I've been using it on treated lumber for outdoors. Is that normal now? I always thought people selected the saw for the direction of cut.

Thanks for all your suggestions!