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Assuming the amount of twist isn’t dramatic, I’d gauge the amount of twist before creating an extremely shallow rebate/rabbet at each end of the beam. Both end surfaces would be parallel and on the same plain, leaving reference surfaces from which you can work and take measurements. I’d then run a chalk line down each edge of the beam (End to end) between the two reference surfaces and then plane the unfinished surface flat and true to the lines using my jack and smoothing plane. This would leave a perfectly flat reference surface without wind or bow and would be known as the face side.
I’d then plane one edge of the beam straight and square to the face side and this would become my face edge. I’d then gauge width and thickness from each reference surface before squaring the second – unfinished – face to the face edge. Both gluing surfaces would be ready for lamination. 😉 Leave the second edge until after the beams have been laminated and it can be planed flat with the others.
The greatest problem will be trying not to remove too much material, otherwise you may be left with a bench top lamination much thinner than intended and in need of additional lateral bracing from beneath.
Finishing surfaces and thicknessing can be left until lamination is complete.