The selection and use of adhesives for restoration of wood objects is dissimilar enough from the same processes employed in fabrication such that a new framework for decision-making is required. To begin with, repairing or reassembling sometimes delicate and deteriorated artifacts requires additional understanding of the adhesive’s characteristics, particularly in the areas of flexibility, stability (and retreatability), and deterioration. When the specific problem includes the attempt to re-integrate fractures which have resulted in voids, these choices usually determine the ultimate success or failure of the treatment. The focus here will be on fractures which are essentially along the grain, or longitudinal, with respect to the wood orientation of the artifact. Longitudinal fractures fall into two broad categories; those which do not distort either the object or the gluing surfaces and can be repaired relatively simply, and those which distort the object and/or damage the gluing surface and require additional treatment prior to the adhesive assembly. As a practical matter virtually any commonly available material or technique for gluing wood can be used, but a more appropriate consideration is, “Which adhesives should be used? And, how should it be used?” The general scope of adhesives and adhesive processes has been presented elsewhere and those fields need not be re-plowed here. Instead let us focus on the role of adhesives in the conservation of fractured wood panels.