As of January 2008, dovetail drawer boxes will be the new standard at Morro Bay Cabinets. Our newly purchased dovetail machine allows us to offer dovetail boxes to you as a free upgrade from the butt-joint boxes that have been our standard for the past 34 years.
Dovetail melamine boxes will be included with all jobs as the basic
drawer box type; upgrades to lumber boxes will be available at
significantly lower prices than were possible when we were outsourcing
our dovetail boxes.
What is a Dovetail Joint?
A dovetail joint, or simply 'dovetail,' is a woodworking joinery technique noted for its resistance to being pulled apart (tensile strength). The dovetail joint is commonly used to join the sides of a drawer to the front. A series of pins cut to extend from the end of one board interlock with a series of tails cut into the end of another board. The pins and tails have a trapezoidal shape, and once they are joined together, they are basically impossible to break apart.
