Black Forest will plane and joint 3 sides for you for free ( They did a year and a half ago anyway). Then you'll just need your table saw to square up the fourth side.
Oak isnt too bad, but its not quite as easy just gluing it up and calling it a day. A biscuit joiner might help lining up your edges a bit easier. For the glue up, you will want some pipe clamps as well.
A good thing to do as well for a table top is to alternate the orientation of the grain of wood. Wood is pretty stable, but its always moving. If you were to look at the end grain of each board you would likely see the grain in a sort of half moon or smily face shape. To maintain the stability of the table top, its a good idea to basically alternate....smily face, sad face, smily face, sad face.
Its a bit tough to do with a lack of tools. I did a butcher block counter top roughly the same size. We glued it up in 3 separate sections, then planed each section, then glued the 3 sections together.
As always, with fun projects like this. YouTube is your friend.
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