You really need to get your razor sharpened by an expert, so you can eliminate that as a variable. Your problems could be caused by your prep, technique, stropping, or something else. Or maybe it is your honing. But getting a known sharp razor is the first step.

Are you sure your Norton is true? I had major problems honing with mine until I lapped it with 600 grit wet sandpaper on some glass.

What grits do you have on your pasted strop? If it's 0.5 or 0.25 micron, those grits are more for smoothing out a sharp edge than they are for improving the sharpness of a dull edge; you may need something like 1.0 or 3.0 micron. I generally go from 4k -> 8k -> 1M -> 0.5M using a vaguely pyramidish scheme, and that seems to work ok.