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.