I like the scraped planes less
I finally had a chance to clear the toolmaking and varnishing stuff off of my bench. I've scraped a bunch of planes to the point that they are lightfast to the edge of a starrett straight edge no matter how you place the straight edge on the sole - through the length, diagonally, etc.
I have to admit I don't like the way the planes work as much now and even with the last couple, I intentionally took a step of relieving the toe and heel with a block or with the lap toward the end of the scraping process.
The simple fact of it is filing and then lapping to finish provided just a little relief, and very gradual, not abrupt - through the length of a plane and the plane was better to use.
I can measure that relief with feelers - it's less than the .0015" feeler everywhere but the very tips of a plane (like the last fraction of an inch on a #6 and last inch on a #7 or 8). it's gone with the more exact scraping and the plane is less good for use in dimensioning and jointing boards as a result.
What's less good? with just a little bit of relief, you can easily plane through a board and manipulate the plane so that the ends are the high point of the cut or only just. With a dead flat plane, it's a lot more effort to do something that simple.