Ha! Thinking about PaulFLUS' and Tc's comments about sharpening the toes of knives and I'm saying 'Yeah, but you are still mostly sharpening perpendicular to the tangent, it only appears to be toe leading because of the belly in the knife.'

With that in mind I started thinking about honing my smiling razors. Since I'm always doing a rolling X stroke, I think that it does appear 'Toe leading' by the time I'm finishing the stroke. Kind of a windshield wiper movement as the razor moves down the hone. Since there is still a lateral pulling motion the stria still shows a bias relative to the tangent as if I was honing heel leading.

I'm thinking about it too much right now to analyze exactly what I do. I have some honing to do over the next few days and I'll pay attention to my natural stroke.