i need to organize things and i want to make a shallow cabinet for the hand tools
i thought that using a cleat would be the simplest wall mount to use
sometimes called a pinch cleat or a french cleat
but they are not earthquake ready and i could just blast a screw through from the front through the cleat and into the wall but something about that i just do not like
what other clever things have you done to fasten the cleats together without driving a screw all the way through
i was thinking of making half-round grooves in each cleat and then once the cabinet is hanging place a dowel into the full-round to marry them together
maybe a square groove would be better