A desk-top cutting machine which includes a base that supports a wood material W and a turntable that has a rotating shaft part and is carried and supported on the base rotatably around the rotating shaft part. The desk-top cutting machine further includes a cutting part having a swinging shaft part. The cutting part is disposed on the turntable and supports a cutting blade, and swings the cutting blade approachably to and separably from the turntable. The desk-top cutting machine further includes a scale part and an indicator part which display a rotary angle of the turntable with the base, and an irradiation unit near the indicator part emitting light that illuminates the indicator part.