Bill Houghton, Sebastopol, CA
But Tom, hand scraped work is fascinating visually, because the marks left behind are so irregular/not patterned - as contrasted, for instance, with well-done, utterly symmetrical engine-turned panels.

And, if I'm fitting a door, I'll take a handplane over any machine/electrically powered tool I can think of; it lets me take a few thousandths off the top right corner of the door without the intense jigging that would be needed to accomplish that with a machine.

I think Pye was speaking not of the measurement issue but of how the work appeared.