I'm looking to make a first bowl, attempting something small as, maybe, a shaving bowl. I thought I might start with this little piece of air-dried wood (first image, IMG_4481). It's about 5" long, 4-1/4" wide and 2-1/4" deep. What bothers me are the cracks I can see around the outer edge, many of which run end-to-end. See the two colored arrows in the other three images--they show two of the cracks, with the red indicating one and the green the other.
Should I burn this blank, because those cracks mean it'll come apart when I get the walls thin enough?
Should I burn this blank, because those cracks mean it'll come apart when I get the walls thin enough?