To provide a desktop cutting machine which can materialize the beautiful cut surface of a processing material by suppressing sharp cutting when a saw blade is started and the contact of the stopped saw blade with the cut surface when the saw blade is stopped.

In the desktop cutting machine, a head part 7 which moves back and forth above a base and rotates vertically to the upper surface of the base is set, a cutting cutter part is set in the head part 7, a motor 1 for driving the cutting cutter part is set, and a reaction suppression mechanism 30 is provided for suppressing a reaction generated when the driving of the cutting cutter part is started and/or when the driving is stopped.