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I did wonder about that kind of thing but it might be a bit beyond my skills. Did you route out the old? Is the new just glued in? Any tips for matching the wood? Not sure my parents Victorian doors are the best thing to learn on though.
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We reused old floorboards which had been taken up to replace. You don't need to router when working on the face of the door. You can just use a sharp Stanley knife to cut out the edges. If you can I'd try cutting your edges so that they have a draft angle, it makes it easy to jam the pieces in. Its not a difficult job to learn as you go.
Just adding, you might find it easier to remove the mortice lock and fill with wood and use the type of lock mounted on the door.
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I did think about suggesting this to you but in the case of the door at your parents house it is more complicated than the one that RJ has in his photo. The damage you're dealing with is to both the rail and the stile. It is possible to patch this but you need to consider that the joint between these two parts of the door is prone to movement so you will need to do 2 patches that go with the grain of the part of the door that they are in. These patches will need to butt up to each other but not be glued to each other so that movement can occur.
rj
Bobbo
This is what I did in similar situations