It holds up better than the Husky I bought at the hardware store. I dropped it once and the piece keeping the blade from slipping broke rendering it useless (especially when cutting upside down). However this one doesn't cut smoothly, I just start gouging the pipe all the time and if you don't react quickly and change direction/angle/slowly it only gets worse. Maybe it doesn't matter much, but I need to file that uneven part of the pipe. I'm not a pro but I didn't have this problem when deployed with the same tool from another manufacturer where I had this problem with every cut.