Again, I opted to glue up veneered panels for the top and bottom of the carcase, although in the original these solid mahogany panels are nailed to rabbets in the sides of the desk and seem to have stayed flat just fine. If you glue up plywood-core panels, you must inlay mahogany where the notches are in the top panel. Because only one edge on each of the panels shows, only that edge needs banding. Detailing the drawer. Satinwood banding is applied to a small rabbet on the drawer front.
Tape holds the banding in place until the glue dries.
Slice and rejoin veneer. On the back carcase panel, instead of inlaying the satinwood stringing, approach it as a marquetry project. Use a small knife to cut the veneer into sections. But I approached it as a marquetry project. Using a razor knife and straight edge to cut the pieces, glue up the veneer with the stringing in place.