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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.
Hand electric planer like the other user posted.
Where should i cut it to prevent that?