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I have a pair of cedar wardrobe closet doors which has both glue failure between some of edge joints and splits down the grain of the panel.

One board is completely separated from the panel and seems like an easy fix: run a light pass through the jointer, glue and clamp.

My problem is dealing with the partially separated joints and splits. It’s not in my nature to fix this half fast but I don’t want to ruin the door either. The wood seems too brittle to wedge the loose joints apart and fix as above. So I was thinking about ripping through the joints with the tablesaw. This would require a new piece of wood to be added to the panel to retain the original dimensions lost from the saw kerfs. Oh, and the joints are not parallel to the edge of the door for added difficulty.

Then there are the splits… Do I just go with the grain and complete the split or do I just squeeze glue in the gap the best I can and clamp. Someone did a sloppy attempt of the latter already. The splits run more than 1/3 the length of the panel.

I was thinking of using Tightbond II based on other posts dealing with oily woods.

Any advice is appreciated,

Joe

Oh and one more point, the edge joints are not parallel to the edge of the door.