Here's an idea for a new product - pre-cut dovetails. Two long strips of wood (8' lengths, like molding) with the tails and pins already cut by a machine. Measure how much you need (e.g. 6") and cut that off. Each strip already has biscuit slots cut. Cut biscuit slots in your drawer side, and join it with the dovetail strip. Cut biscuit slots in your drawer front, and join it with the pin strip. Done! Sure, you'll have a glue line, but nobody will see it because they're looking at the perfect dovetails!!!
I'll call it E-Z-Tail. Available in all the popular wood species (oak, maple, walnut, cherry). And I'll leave Frank in the dust......
Great idea Bas, but aren't you forgetting in both your posts that Dovetails are not supposed to be decorative!! They just are! They are there for strength and in your first post, painted or not, a big drawer should have dovetails and in the second "E-Z tails" you would have an end grain glue joint. Maybe we should take a leaf out of Franks book and just rough 'em out and be done - they'd be just as strong:nah: Having said that, I want in on the E-Z tails business!