I use super glue to re attach the small chips that sometimes come off around a receiver or tang when you take a gun apart that has not been apart in 80+ yrs. I try to do it immediately and generally use a blunted round toothpick to hold the chip in while the glue dries so that I can see if it's seating back in completely. I'll usually then take and exacto knife and relieve the edge of the chip just a smidgen to get it away from the metal. this works well. I've also glued quite a few shattered violin tops back together with super glue, none of which have ever failed since. It works very well for that. I don't do it on expensive violins... just older "fiddles" that my clients use mostly for square dancing and such. If the wood is clean, super glue works very well. It's good for filling cracks also. You first make dust with a file from wood like you are filling, force the dust into the cracks then drip low viscosity super glue onto the fill until it's soaked and let it dry and work it down. I use that method to fill in around pearl or silver inlaying on stringed instrument finger boards and fiddle tail pieces. Haven't ever found an alternate method that works better.
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