I'm doing a low budget kitchen cab job for a friend's rental. For stain grade jobs I've always built end panels to match the doors but this job requires cheap and fast 1/4" mdf core veneers, something I've never done. How do you guys do this? Do you simply butt them to the frame with a small reveal? Do you use adhesive and/or pin nails? Seems the cleanest method would be to dado the veneer to the FF, but the reveal would have to be wider than 1/16 for obvious reasons.
The easiest solution would be to use 3/4" veneer ply to construct the box thereby eliminating the need for a 1/4" skin. The problem is that the other box pieces are C-2 maple so I'd have a species mis-match on the interior (exterior species is alder and the only 3/4 veneer available is alder both sides. This would create an unacceptable mis-match of interior species. I'm wondering if it would just be easier to bond the 1/4" skin to the 3/4 C-2 prior to assembling the box.