As I am a college student and will be getting a month and a half off for christmas I have a few jobs lined up to help pay for those over priced college books. For the last few years I've been looking at jointer planes, i would really like an old #8 Stanley but have been unable to find a suitable one. So I've looked at new ones, and while Lie-Nielsen's are nice but for that price i could have my father make the pattens for and cast one, or mill one out of solid steel in our shop. So since price is a factor the Anant line seems appealing, are they any good? Their #8 is priced at a very nice $90, but now they've come out the the Anant Karmal line which is supposed to be better at $140. I don't care as much about the quality of the blade as we replace most of ones we have with shop made ones later. Has anyone ever used these planes? Do they work well or will I have to adjust and fight the thing every pass I make? Any help would be great!