No problem with knuckles on the smoother/jack. They're the ones on my shelf
which DO have enough space for me. My LN low angle, and perhaps the Veritas
take a fingering diagram.

I, too, have had experience with donated Anants. I don't know how much the
outfit wrote off on the donation, but if it was more than a buck and a
quarter each, the IRS oughta lock 'em up. Hell, even the irons chip off
when planing knots, and as to the cast in the body....

"dave in fairfax" wrote in message
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Highland has a good reputation and it's been quite a while since I
tried the Anants, so it's possible that they cleaned up their
act. Once upon a time, "Made in Japan" was a curse. I've never
heard anything bad about the Veritas planes, indeed they seem to
be the most inovative planes around. Come to think of it, I heard
that there was a knuckle space issue on one if you had huge hands,
but that's just hearsay, and Robin may have addressed that issue,
if it was a real problem.