Book Match - Successive veneer leaves in a flitch are turned over like the pages in a book, and edge-glued in this manner. Since the reverse side of one leaf is the mirror image of the succeeding leaf, the result is a series of pairs.

End Match - One leaf is spliced end to end with another leaf to create a longer panel or piece of veneer. End matching is often used to extend the apparent length of available veneers.

Quarter Match - Veneers that are matched in fours with the book and end type of match. This is particularly well suited to matching burls and crotches because of their generally exotic grains. This results in a completely balanced set of grain figures around a center point.

Diamond Match - This is generally done with a straight grained veneer. If a rectangle is divided into four quadrants, the veneer is matched at an angle to the quadrant lines, and the grain forms a Vee at these lines. The result is a diamond shape formed by the grain directions.

Herringbone - Veneer strips are used and matched to both sides of a centerline, at an angle to it. The resulting appearance is reminiscent of the bones in a fish as they are attached to the backbone.

Slip Match - Successive veneer leaves in a flitch are "slipped" one alongside the other and edge-glued in this manner. The result is a series of grain repeats, but no pairs. The danger with this method is that grain patterns are, rarely, perfectly straight. Where a particular grain pattern "runs off" the edge of the leaf, a series of leaves with this condition could visually make a panel "lean." In book matching, the pairs balance each other.