Cutting in a curve always means a blunt chain, Joe (blunter on one side than the other), but I'm sure you know that. If you keep the chain sharp it should cut well, but if you let it get blunt it burns the chrome off the teeth well back from the cutting edges, and from then on it won't hold an edge until you grind or file the edges right back to where the chrome has retreated to. That is especially a problem when you cut hard wood like redgum, a blunt blade runs really hot on that stuff. It is a bad idea to keep cutting when the saw stops being really sharp. Congratulations on never hitting dirt with it - I could never achieve that, cutting up fallen rotten trees. Could easily sharpen the saw three times in an hour's cutting, in that situation.
Looks like a decent saw, but I don't know about price and availability of parts.
