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Is anyone still interested in these planes? I have just seen the topic, and i hope its not too late too answer.
I have two Pinie planes: 2 45, and 2 39. They are probably the cheapest useable wooden hand planes you can find. Not a great quality, but useable.
They have some issues, though. Iron bed needs some tweaking, they may come with the slightly twisted sole, hornbeam handle looks like its gonna fall of, iron needs sharpening and the mouth opening is too wide for a fine work. … But its all pretty much easy to fix.
On the other hand, planes are light, easy to use and the iron is not too bad. It is hardened to 58 HRC witch is way better than the rest of the really cheap irons you can find. It needs to be sharpen more frequently than premium planes iron, but apart from that it works just fine.