On Sat, 21 Jan 2006 11:38:14 GMT, – Colonel –
wrote:

Now they're pushing Anant planes. Anyone have nay experience with them?

They're not the bottom of the barrel, but they're awfully close to it.
Worse than Kunz or modern Stanley, although not as fragile as modern
Stanley. Just a bit better than some of the worst Chinese bucketware.

There's an interesting FWW article of a few years ago (1999 ?) where
they tested plane tune-up parts, such as irons and cap irons. They
included an Anant in this review (probably the one and only in FWW) as
an example of the real bottom end to see how much difference careful
tuning could make.

You can do useful work with an Anant, if that's all you have. But don't
spend money on the damn thing!