I'm sure every question on this topic has been asked a bajillion times here ...sorry. I did a search on the creek first, but didn't see the exact answers i was looking for.
I made a glue block for the face plate, and of course I already did something wrong but it should be ok. i drilled the hole through the center before truing up the face. I wasn't thinking that the center would find itself when truing up the face. I was off by a tiny fraction of an inch. darn. I'll have to putty that and drill again. that's not a question, just a sidebar.
First question, I used a scrap of spanish cedar left over from some furniture pieces for the glue block. Is that a good wood for a glue block? It seems good. It's light, stable, not terrible weak. I'd like to make bowls with it, I've always liked the look of spanish cedar's endgrain.
Second thing, I read that its advised to concave the center of the block a bit...does everyone do this? Just very slightly, as in almost not detectable?
Thirdly, what about end grain? What if I want to do something like another egg cup? Is the end grain to long grain glue up safe enough?
Thanks