Black Over-Travel Soft-Close Slide For Drawers Under Counter Overhangs

The Knape & Vogt 8455 Series is an 18 inch, side-mount, ball-bearing drawer slide with 1 inch of over-travel and integrated soft-close damping, finished in Ebony Black. It is built for drawers that sit behind a countertop overhang or deep face frame, where a standard full-extension slide would leave the drawer box blocked by the cabinet opening.

Key Features

• 1 inch of over-travel pushes the drawer past full extension so the box clears a counter overhang and the full interior is reachable.
• Integrated soft-close damping catches the drawer in the last inch of travel and settles it shut silently.
• 90 lb weight capacity per pair handles loaded kitchen and utility drawers through daily use.
• Ball-bearing telescopic construction delivers smooth, consistent movement under load across the slide's full travel.
• Ebony Black finish disappears against dark cabinet interiors and matches black-finished hardware in modern and industrial installs.
• Non-handed design means the same slide mounts on either side of the drawer with no handed ordering required.

Where Over-Travel Makes the Difference

Standard full-extension slides stop when the drawer member reaches the end of the cabinet member — which is fine in an open-face cabinet, but leaves the drawer blocked when a counter nosing, thick face frame, or appliance rail sits in front of the opening. The 8455's extra inch of travel carries the drawer past that obstruction so the entire box clears the opening and rear contents are reachable without reaching blind. This makes the slide a practical choice for kitchen sink-base drawers, pull-outs behind thick face frames, workbench drawers under overhanging tops, and any run where the cabinet face does not align flush with the interior side panel. Shops building production runs of face-frame kitchen cabinetry will find the over-travel spec removes a common clearance problem without requiring custom work on the box or cabinet.

Build and Finish

Steel members carry hardened ball bearings in full-length raceways. The Ebony Black finish is a powder-coated or similarly durable coating suited to indoor cabinetry. This is a side-mount slide requiring 1/2 inch of side clearance per side between the drawer box and cabinet interior — size the box accordingly. The bulk-pack format suits cabinet shops ordering in quantity for production work rather than single-job retail packs.

Who This Is For

Cabinet shops and contractors working on face-frame kitchen projects where counter overhangs are the norm will get the most from this slide. The over-travel spec solves a real site problem, and the soft-close damping meets the expectation in residential kitchens today. The Ebony Black finish makes it the right call when the rest of the hardware package is dark — matte black pulls, black hinges, or black cabinet interiors — and a zinc or white slide would read as mismatched. Homeowners replacing slides in an existing dark-interior kitchen will find the color match as useful as the motion spec.

The Right Slide for Dark-Interior Builds with an Overhang Problem

Pairing over-travel travel with soft-close damping in an Ebony Black finish, the KV 8455 handles the two most common requests in residential kitchen work — quiet close and full access behind the counter — without requiring a finish compromise when the rest of the project runs dark.