There are different aspects of honing, or categories. There is the touch up, where you simply refine an already made bevel and tune the edge up a little. There is a full hone, where a bevel is reset, but one had already existed. This is done sometimes because of minor issue like the edge has been mildly damage from a light faucet kiss or a rolled edge, or a friend checking out you razor and killing the edge on their thumb nail.
There is also chip removal, where again a bevel exists but the edge needs to be honed back a bit to remove larger chips.
Restoration honing is the big one. You are essentially creating the entire bevel from scratch where no reminants of a bevel exists. This one may also include damage anlong the edge that is visible, or invisible damage where the steel has suffered sub surface damage and chips show up sort of all of the sudden.
This is all to say without any geometry issue being thrown in just for fun. The principles of honing are simple. As long as you are honing a solid blade and working in the first two categories all should be easy to deal with.