So, all three photos are the bevel at 3k?

If so, you still have a lot of 1k stria, it does not look like you are honing to the edge, and the bevel is not fully set.

That bevel looks very damaged and may not hold an edge, at the least, you will have to get past the pitting on the bevel. Joint or lightly bread knife the edge, until you are well past the pitting and into good steel, it should only take a few swipes on a low grit stone or diamond plate, the edge is very thin.

Also take your photos so the edge is facing the same direction, it makes it much easier to determine what we are seeing. In the 2nd photo is the narrow, blurry band the bevel?

I suspect you are not using enough pressure on the 1k to grind the bevel flat and reach the edge. At 1k, the goal is to grind the bevels flat and into a single plane, it appears you have not accomplished that. Sometimes you have to use more pressure, especially when making corrections.

Using too much pressure can cause chipping, but that can be dealt with simply, by jointing the edge and resetting the bevel with less pressure. Try using 2 layers of tape to increase the angle and see if that reaches the edge, you can always drop back down to a single layer and reset the angle in a handful of laps later if you wish.

Watch your tape when using pressure on a low grit stone, it is easy to burn through the tape. Keep inking the bevel to see your progress, colored ink makes it easier to see, black ink can look like a shadow. Tape and ink are cheap…

That the ink was difficult to remove, is a good indicator that the bevels are not flat and in a single plane, and most probably the swarf remove the ink, not the hone. All your ink should come off the bevel completely in 2-3 laps, once the bevels are flat, though that does not mean that the bevels are meeting. Look straight down on the edge, if you see shiny reflections, the bevel is still not meeting, fully.

The bevels can be flat, at the proper angle and still not meeting fully. You have to achieve all three, to fully set the bevel.

Lastly, once you set a bevel, killing it and re-setting it does not really teach you a lot about honing, because 95 percent of honing is flattening the bevel, setting the angle and getting them to meet,(setting the bevel). Once you have accomplished the first two, getting them to meet again, after jointing is simply a matter of a few strokes, all the hard work and learning is already done.