Vintage Dewalt Progress

Bought a 1957 DeWalt MBF already restored and painted modern dewalt yellow. This was my first precision powertool in a 90% handtool shop, so the fastest way to get it up and running was to rig a precise-ish 90* temporary fence/table to it and use that to fabricate a permanent torsion box table for it and then use that to fabricate a full frame and panel cabinet to mount the saw on top of. Last photo is how it currently sits, bottom cavity has a drawer, unsure if I’ll put a second drawer into the top cavity, planning a frame and panel curly maple door for the front but haven’t gotten around to it yet.

The saw is shockingly accurate and repeatable with all the built in tapered pins and micro-adjustments. I can swing it to a 45* miter and back to 90* and still land within a few thousandths of perfect 90 across the 15” crosscut capacity. When you throw in the ability to precisely set cut depth depth to .010” without any math or brain power, and use a DADO stack you can easily align on your workpiece by eye I think this tool should be a small shop staple.