Originally Posted by
Vaughn McMillan
Yeppers, for a box like the one pictured in the first link in your original post, that'd be about it (although the wood may be a bit thicker than 1/8"). On bigger lids (or other panel assemblies), you can start getting into potential swelling and shrinking issues when you glue a thin piece onto a thicker piece. As I understand it, these issues are lessened if the substrate (the piece you glue the fancy wood onto) is plywood or MDF, but then you have to deal with the exposed edge. Someone here with more experience gluing veneers (and a bit thicker) can probably chime in with better advice.
That pretty much describes my method: include a rabbet in the lid to inset the top piece and hide the edge. Then the top "show" surface can be anything from veneer to solid...all the edge treatment is done on the top edge of the sides.
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