thick red oak plywood ... veneer to the sides first, being careful to keep the veneer aligned with the shelf. Don’t peel and ...

plywood and screw another scrap to ... If the trimming blade catches in the wood grain, it can split the thin veneer and you'd have to start over. Prevent that headache by shimming one side ...

I would inevitably suffer with ultra-thin veneers on the top, ugly cores, unfinishable edges, warping, voids, and other maladies of the common plywood. One day I said enough is enough and bothered ...