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Or at least, a side table. What is the process of doing that? I have basic hand tool for working on some other small project, a small circular saw(that attached to a marble cutter), and an electric planer, what else would i need?
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Yeah, drying cross-sections like that is supposed to be really tricky. But assuming you get it dried without it splitting all over the place, I'd use a router sled to surface it, then sand it to finish.
My plan is to use the electric planer and slowly work to flatten it, but router seems like a more viable way to do it. Maybe i'll get one once the wood dried...in a year or so.
By electric planer, do you mean a handheld planer, or a pass through planer? If you mean the pass through kind, then that's probably fine, but you might have a problem with it taking chunks off the edges, due to the orientation of the grain.
If you are just doing a single slab, building and setting up a router sled is more work than doing it with a hand plane, manual or electric. So I would go that route if possible.
That being said, it's going to crack as it dries unless you cut it before it starts shrinking.
Power planer:
Hand electric planer like the other user posted.
Where should i cut it to prevent that?