ke, you can do it either way. One issue with glueing while it's wet is that the amonia kicks CA and turns it white. I think the ideal method is to wet it, use carpenter's glue and wrap it with tape until dry (like you were making laminations). If you have one of those little X-acto table saws you can rip a bunch of strips with beveled edges and plank. Otherwise, the Windex method is faster.

Here's a masking tape mock-up. Weighs 4ozs in the photo. I think I'll get in under 10ozs auw.