Using Baltic Birch for Drawers and Appliance Lifts

Listen recently I bought a couple of sheets for drawers, and now I’m totally sold on the stuff. It’s 4×8, roughly the same stuff as Baltic Birch, but it just cuts so nicely, is far more consistent thickness-wise, and is so amazingly strong relative to the voided stuff that I've really got to think that all of those things don’t matter to bother going for the cheap wood.

 When prototyping some bits for an appliance lift out of 1/2” ApplePly, and I’m about to go out and see if I can find a way to build this in metal, but I almost don’t need to. I wouldn't trust 3/4” standard veneered plywood to the sorts of loads on the sorts of parts I’m playing with, but this stuff is strong enough that the only reason I’m looking at going to steel is the width of the mechanism.