New Russian 1965 5/8" blade and an ordeal

I have 8 Russian 5/8" blades ranging in age from 1956 to 1965( my newest one, above) and they all have been  breeze to sharpen and hone and to keep keen, Not this one,although it showed up with a great looking bevel. I thought it would be easy,

Ah, no.

The above group of stones is all that it took to get this thing even semi close. I'll see tomorrow but it took forever

First( as I did on the last russian):


BBW circles 8 passes: Nothing
Cretan hone with slurry : circles nothing
Nakayama on slurry : nothing


Back to basics
Chosera 800 with slurry : bevel strokes nothing for awhile then a bit of TNT bite
( worked out some dead spots in the edge with the chosera 600 slurry stone and this produced chips! ack)
Dull on glass 2 downstrokes
Chosera without slurry : sharper


King 1000 X strokes ( on water)


Then
Nakayama 1 with soft uchi slurry : circles refresh slurry twice 'shaving some armhair!
Nakayama 2 with Chu Nagura slurry circles  its working!
Oozuku with tomonagura slurry: better still! finally.
Nakayama Asagi with tomonagura X strokes and push strokes. : keener and looking better under the scope
Uchigumori with Karusu slurry: X strokes 40 laps
                          water 50 laps
tests are ok great in some spots so so in others

50 laps linen
30 on palm

test tomorrow.


SHAVE REPORT:
NOT BAD AT ALL. I'D GIVE IT AN 8.5.NOT QUITE AS SHARP OR AS SMOOTH AS I WOULD LIKE BUT CONSIDERING IT WAS A BUTTER KNIFE AT FIRST, AND FOR MORE THAN A FEW HOURS AFTER SHARPENING, I'LL TAKE IT.


AND THE RAZOR ITSELF IS IN GREAT SHAPE TOO,ESPECIALLY THE SCALES. IT IS A KEEPER. A FEW MORE TIMES ON THE HONE AND IT WILL BE AS GOOD AS IT'S OTHER RUSSIAN BROTHERS.