That all makes sense.  I’ll definitely do a small test on scrap before the real thing to make sure I have a handle on how to handle the glue squeeze-thru.

I think only doing one side would work fine Nathan.  But it’s not a lot more work to do both sides if I veneer it in panel form before cutting to size so better safe than sorry.  Plus, it turns out my veneer is big enough to do both sides so I don’t have to buy anything else either.

HHG is tempting and if I already had the stuff, I’d probably go that route.  I’m tempted to just do contact cement since I am familiar with it.  But I feel better about glue since doing some research so I’m going to go that route.  Plus worst case is I screw up and just have to plane the veneer back off and do plain old walnut drawers which was my original plan anyway.