Ready to be glued back together.
The leatherette cover over the edge pieces of wood is folded over.
The folded edge on the loose piece is not glued down.
This edge of leatherette needs to be glued down before the pieces are glued back together.
I have this rubber cement. It should work OK for the leatherette.
Applied a liberal amount on both surfaces (leatherette and wood).
Allowed it to dry just a minute to get to a tacky point.
Then, pushed the leatherette down.
Now the two pieces of wood can be glued together using wood glue.
I'm using a brush to apply the glue more evenly.
The main piece has a small section where the wood is split but not detached. Need to apply glue in this area so that when the main pieces are glued together and clamped, this section will also get glued together.
View of the cracked wood from the other side (outer surface).
Applied glue on the smaller piece of wood.
Then applied glue on the larger piece. Avoided getting glue on the floating center panel with the felt on it.
Placed the pieces together, being careful to not get the loose pieces of leatherette in the joint on both side of the panel.
Started clamping the pieces together.
Placed some weight on the center area so that the pieces would get glued together flat.
After clamping and placing weight, checking flatness from the side, it was not sitting flat and the two pieces were not joining straight. There was a noticeable bent at the joint.
The reason is that the lock mechanism sticks out about a mm on the outer side, which is the bottom side as I have the lid oriented on the work bench.
I took all the clamps off and flipped the lid panel over so that the inner side of the panel with the felt is pointing down. The lock mechanism is over-flush less on this side and is nearly flat.
I reapplied all the clamps and put the weights back on the lid.
Looking from the edge, it looked more flat than before.
I'll take the clamps off after 24 hours. Hopefully it will be flat!
