Gluing the wrestplank veneer

The wrestplank is made of oak but is covered by a thin 1/8" veneer made of maple - the same material as the case. This has to be cut to size and then glued down. Unfortunately the sheet of wood is slightly warped and, although keeping it at about 45% relative humidity for several weeks with some weights on top of it has helped it still isn't perfectly flat.

I hope that if I do a good enough job of clamping it down during the gluing process things will be OK. The construction manual suggests using heavy books to weight things down but I am going to go a little further than that - I am going to put a sheet of plywood on top of the veneer, clamp it round the edges with all of the clamps that I have and put weights on top in the middle.

Here is the dry run to figure out the position of the clamps ...


... and here it is for real with 15 clamps and 130 pounds of weight ...


I left it clamped overnight, and 16 hours later it looks like this:


Here is a closeup view of the edge of the veneer