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I also should have noted I fixed this exact same issue with hide glue, hence why I recommended it. It's not hard to find and will do the job correctly, like @foggy said
Some liquid hide glues are marketed as wood glue. That's what I was referring to when Id said wood and hide glue are the same. We were referring to the same thing. They're not always the same thing though.
It's confusing.
But you could use any wood glue, you should use hide glue, some wood glue is hide glue.
In my world, hide glue and wood glue are the same thing. In a proper carpenter's world, that is not the case. I only work on guitars/ukuleles
Gotcha. Semantics lol. My understanding is if two pieces of wood used to be the same piece of wood (crack or break repair) use hide glue. If they've always been different pieces of wood to use titebond/pva wood glue.
That is what the luthier I studied with taught me as well.
Sometimes, if the two pieces of wood don't fit back together well enough, your unfortunate option is to sand them both down and use polyurethane. Which is why I would heavily advise against breaking the piece off! It's already snug! :)