Earlier this year I bought a few Anant planes just to see what they are like.  So far, the only complaint I have is excessive play in the depth adjusting mechanism.  When first tuning them up I found the steel in the blades a bit harder than I am accustomed to making them a bit difficult to hone, but the benefit of the harder steel is that it also seems to hold an edge better than other stock blades.

The blades themselves, which I initially planned to replace, are considerably heavier than what one finds even on old Stanley’s.  They ain’t Lie-Nielsen, but they ain’t bad.

Jeff