Leaded glass crack in wood front door

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Only thing I'm worried about is having a piece of plywood over my front door for a couple of weeks while it is being fixed. What can go wrong?

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Plywood is more secure than the leaded glass door. A burglar would break a window or another glass door to avoid trying to remove the plywood.

I'm bumping this back up. What did you decide to do?

I'm having trouble finding someone in Baton Rouge that will replace the OUTER pane of leaded glass door insert. The leaded glass itself as well as inner pane is good, but the outer pane is broken. I really want to exhaust the repair option because the design is old, unique, and has matching sidelight windows.

From my calls around, this might be more of a handyman job of carpentry + glass replacement. The glass companies don't seem to want to repair in wood, only sell me glass. I considered DIY, but I'm concerned with proper sealing and not fogging.

Does anyone have recommendations in Baton Rouge? I can deliver the door so I might look outside of Baton Rouge.

The stained glass was not built in as the door was made. It was added in and a piece of molding is holding it in place. Get you some acrylic panels cut to the same size as your stained glass. Hold in place with the molding while you get the repairs done.

Replace the stained glass after repair. Touch up with wood putty, sand stain and seal.

This is not a difficult project, just one to take your time with.