We have a local bunch - they were Woodworkers Warehouse originally and I forget the new name - but the basement is where they keep the "good" wood: planks of exotic stuff, smells wonderful, and they have loads of veneers, like tiger maple, mahogany, etc. Wide enough to do a guitar body. It is great because you can go through the pile and find the best sheet without having one mailed from someplace. One of these days I will find a top project again (I passed on a really f'd over 59 LP jr that haunts me) and go there. You can veneer a curved top but it is hard, which is why lots of ES and EB2 bodies have the cracks along the belly. That is why they used the Sparkling Burgundy finish - to hide their screw ups. It is not easy to do those. It can be done though.
My recollection of those Guilds in that green is that it is opaque and not a stain.