Dovetail joinery is a strong method of joining the sidewalls together and gives excellent front to back pulling strength. But dovetail joinery has limitations on side to side strength. If your assembling dresser drawers that will have only the pressure of a pair of socks or t-shirts against the sides, it works great. Most roll out shelves on the market today advertising dovetail joints, are typically what is called a blind dovetail. This type of dovetail will give you a clean front because the pins on the dovetail go half way through the front stock. This dovetail method is the weakest of dovetails. We have had several distributors of another company purchase our pull out shelfs because they were tired of having to re-glue the sidewalls.

A rabbet joint along with pneumatically inserted brad nails,glue, and a dadoed in bottom gives us the desired side to side strength and the front to back pulling strength.