A wood veneer is a major part of woodworking. A veneer is thin wood slices. These are thinner than three millimeter. These are basically fastened on top of main panels such as the wood particle board. These can also be a fiberboard of medium thickness. This is done to create flat panels including common things such as tops, doors, cabinet panels, and varied important parts of furniture. These are widely utilized in marqueterie. Plywood is available in 3 or more veneer layers. These are joined firmly in conjunction with its particles at right angles towards neighboring layers. This is to provide additional strength.

Wood veneer is usually derived via peeling the tree trunk. It can also be obtained via slicing huge rectangular wooden blocks referred to as flitches. Three most common types of equipments are utilized to make wood veneer commercially. These include a rotary lathe, a slicing machine and half-round lathe.