On 10/22/2010 6:57 PM, rlz wrote:

I was thinking of not dadoing the gables and just using biscuits on a
butt jount. Just concerned about the strength of the biscuits.

Frameless, or traditional face frame cabinets?

Contrary to conventional wisdom, and providing you use a sufficient
number, say every four evenly spaced biscuits on a 12" deep wall cabinet
with butt jointed shelves, properly glued biscuits will prove plenty
strong enough to support most kitchen cabinet shelf weights.

The question is why?

You will find that adjustable shelves make much more sense. Dadoing your
top and bottom "*floors", and making all intervening shelves adjustable
will give you much more flexibility in cabinet utilization and convenience.

(*in kitchen cabinet parlance, the top and bottom of the cabinet, since
they are usually the same dimension, are generally grouped in your
Cutlist as a "floor')

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