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Old 03-27-2008
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Veneer over engineered wood means veneer over Low Density Fiberboard or Medium Density Fiberboard. Commonly know was particul board or compressed board. It was designed for cabinet makers and does not warp as much as plywood. Assuming your planning to use standard sizes for your cabinets and not planning on building it your self, I recommend you buy the prebuilt variety avilable at HD or Lowes.

It will cost about 10% more then the materials to build your own and you don't have to build them. This is still true when you drift up the scale to the higher priced and better built ones. Using Marine plywood is a big overkill. Just as is probably the case now, you or the next owner will get tired of the cabinets your going to put in before they fall apart. Even now, you could probably refinish, repair and update what you've already got, but would rather replace them instead.

This will be true again in twenty to thirty years, by then styles as well as sizes and uses will have shifted enough that what ever you put in now, will be ripped out and replaced.
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