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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 โ
but with a slab like this, i would have rather cut a diameter to try to keep one side intact (or 2 sides)