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?
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?
Yup, at least a year and probably more, and it will split because that’s what giant “cookies” like this do.
you can cut a radius line to at least protect the part of the pattern that pleases you most. Instead of splitting arbitrarily from a couple of places, the wood will just widen the cut and dry relatively intact
like this ☞
but with a slab like this, i would have rather cut a diameter to try to keep one side intact (or 2 sides)
You can get some wax paint that’s supposed to prevent checking, but it didn’t help with some logs I was drying.
That can help a lot with linear boards, but if you try to force this thing to dry only through the side grain, it’s almost literally never going to dry.
The other poster who recommends guiding the checking is onto something, but “rustic” (or something building upon that) is really going to be the only viable aesthetic here.