Nice tutorial MrRick, quite detailed.
I like scrapers too, find them very useful. I use them to remove small dents & dings, I always run them down the glue line on panels - they remove the glue squeeze out and level any minor differences between boards as I don't use dowels or biscuits, and they excel on difficult boards where a smoothing plane creates grain tear out.
I'm going to have to try your method of creating a burr, my method seems to dull rather quickly.
Thanks.