I would call the Lie Nielsen irons substandard. I have been to many Lie Nielsen events over the last dozen years; their irons leave a surface that is...
Years ago Australian woods were really hyped up on some of our forums. I had guys who had never seen jarrah telling me I would be unable to plane it....
I had abandoned the scraper a few years earlier because I was getting a better surface from the plane. I started using the double iron plane in 1973...