Howdy fellow face Scrapers!!

I am just starting to practice the ARTF of Honing. I can get convergents of both bevel sides on the lower grit hone[1K norton], and with TNT it's seems just fine, then when moving to the Norton 4K/8K stone, after the agressive Pyramid progresion the TPT seems fine also, but my question is, when going to the finer, Conservive Progresion, by that I mean the one Lynn A. use's, as I polish I feel the edge getting LESS sticky on the wetted pad of my thumb. I it that I'm AM looking for the feeling to get less sticky and more polished?? I find also that to test shave with a razor being honed you really have to wait for beard growth to HAVE something to test!
And that does add time to the honing proccess. I know all this is subjective, but sometimes I feel as if I'm bloody well spining my wheels as the more I polish, as I said, the Less sticky, so, whats the best advice for my conundrum??
Thank you for your time and I would like to say how much this site has helped me with my new Str8 hobby.
tinkersd of SRP.