The safest way to accomplish this is to use wooden shims.
How to disassemble a wood panel door.
Pull the scraper with the grain.
Unscrew the top hinge first and remove the lower hinge with an assistant holding the door in place.
Remove any fasteners in the corner of the panel with a small pry par.
Use a rubber mallet to carefully bang out.
Cut some lengths of 8mm dowel slightly longer than the width of the stile.
Press the form against the filler and attach it with screws.
How to replace wood door panels.
It can prove difficult to remove an inner wood panel from a cabinet door especially thicker hardwood panels but if you don t want to buy a new door try th.
Wood replacement is my first choice when the damage involves a joint or threatens a door s structural integrity.
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Use two hands and apply only gentle downward pressure to reduce the chance of an accidental slip gouging the wood.
The first step is to remove the bolection moulding around the panel.
One trick is to build a form and line it with plastic sheeting.
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Or you can wait until the sagging filler reaches the hardness of soap and carve it off with a putty knife or chisel or shape it with a surform plane or rasp photo 2.
Clean out any varnish from the crack being careful not to strip away any of the wood.
Then pull it off after the filler hardens.
Small razor sharp scrapers reach into corners across narrow profiles and on the end grain of raised panels where no rotary sander can safely go.
Depending on the location and extent of wood damage you may or may not have to disassemble the door to carry out a repair.