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The Stanleys you're looking at are small block planes and will work well for that task if you're just cleaning the edges up. If you were preparing an edge for glue up, those would be the last choice, as you would need a #7 or #8. The block planes are easy to set up and have a shorter learning curve.

For flattening the slabs, I recently built a pair of end tables with walnut slabs. I actually flattened one face with a scrub plane and jointer plane, but when looking at the next 3 faces, I said screw it and built a router-planer jig and finished up flattening them pretty quickly. I cleaned them up with hand planes to minimize sanding, but once you flatten it with a router, you can sand them smooth.

Simple jig.



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For a one-off project, I would look at having it done at a shop. Figured maple can be difficult to work.