David Weaver
infills and all wooden planes can be sorted out to work like that, but the easiest way to learn to fit them well is to make them -then, suddenly, refitting older planes is very easy and often takes less than an hour end to end.

Which is probably not that realistic. The interesting thing about both types is that it's not hard to make them with the critical details right (including really nailing exactly what you're looking for in an iron, the fit, etc). But it takes a little bit of individual attention to each one and I guess nobody is going to do that in mid range tools.

And nobody is going to pay for it until you get up to the cost level of Larry's planes.

Once in a while, I'll find an English plane (greaves, griffiths, etc) made well with a full ward iron, refit it and I can't tell any difference between my planes and those refitted. Except I could pretty easily sell a plane for double the cost of materials and If I refit an old plane and list it on ebay, i'll never break even after fees.