What is Wood Veneer?
Wood veneer is a very thin cut piece of wood, usually 1/8″ thick or less, that is subsequently glued and pressed onto another material. That material can be plywood, particle board, real wood, pressed wood, solid wood, or even plastics and composites. It’s cheaper substrate material (like particle board) that has given wood veneer a bad reputation. When glued and pressed over solid wood furniture, cabinets, and flooring, however, it makes for some of the highest quality and attractive materials you can purchase. Why not Use Solid Wood? It’s a good question, and an easy one to answer. First of all, it’s a whole lot cheaper to apply a veneer as a finish than to build an entire piece of furniture out of a rare cut piece of wood. Take birds eye maple, for example. A dining room set made of solid birds eye maple can cost nearly $20,000! A piece of furniture finished in birds eye veneer, however, has all the great looks of that rare wood at a fraction of the price. It’s still not going to be
