When dry sand lightly with 220 grit sandpaper and use a stain.
How to fix a cracked wooden door panel.
Clean up any excess glue before it dries but leave the clamp in place for 24 hours.
Insert the dowels and knock them in so that they push on the edge of the panel and hopefully close the split or crack.
If you are dealing with much larger cracks in wooden doors you may have to resort to stronger.
Remove the spline and apply a liberal amount of wood glue into the crack.
Dribble wood glue into the crack and set a clamp against the blocks to pull the crack closed.
Steps to fixing a crack in a wooden door.
Work slowly and carefully since the thin strips of moulding are fragile and can easily break.
Wipe off any excess glue and then let the it dry leaving the ends of the dowels protruding from the edge of the door stile.
Feed the wood glue into the crack and make sure it.
If you go the route of a wood filler versus putty in order to sand and paint your door i have to give a shout out to dap s wood filler.
To repair the years of nicks gorges and cracks on my interior doors i use dap s plastic wood professional wood filler.
The safest way to accomplish this is to use wooden shims.
How to repair a crack in an oak exterior door 1.
I use a razor blade to score the varnish and gunk between the moulding door and the panel and then slowly push wood shims under the length of the moulding.
Squirt some pva wood glue into the crack in the panel and into the holes drilled in the stile.
After the wood filler dried i started sanding and realized that i could not sand all the way smooth because the cracks begin showing again.
Glue medium size cracks together with exterior wood glue.
Fill in hairline cracks with an exterior wood filler.