Big cookie for coffee table (advice please)

So I had a pretty big ash log in my garage for 3-4 years. I’ve been waiting for it to dry with a plan to slice off a 5” cookie from which I’d make a coffee table

I finally cut it today. Just wondering what I should use to sand it down...there’s a lot of rough surface from the chainsaw. I thought about a sanding disc for my angle grinder.

Thoughts? Sorry if this is in the wrong subforum.

 

There was a thread here a while back and they used a router and some sort of a frame that the router slid across . Let me see if I can find it.

 

I would start with my planer after sharpening the blades to get the high spots and then switch to belt sander with 50 grit. Keep checking for flat with a straightedge that reaches the full diameter. Mark high spots and keep working them down. After you get it flat with 50, go to finer grit.

 

Ok

Ok that makes a lot of sense. I need to get a planer and a belt sander though...which isn't a bad thing.

I can probably get another cookie from the log.

 

Not sure how to post a link but this is what I was thinking about.
Finishing large rounds for outside table tops

 

Finishing large rounds for outside table tops

 

Thanks for the help with that.
I need to work on my computer skills a little bit.

 

Thanks buzz-saw and XXL

 

Here is a pic of a table with a router sled used for leveling or making flat large pieces of wood.