OK guys. Am I thinking this through correctly?

I am learning honing on eBay purchased razors.

My last attempt was a Wade & Butcher which frustrated me at first try. I got it to shave, but not nearly as close or well as my reference razors (e.g. Hart, a Wade & Butcher honed by Lynn, and a LeGrelot 1/4). In fact, one pass with the Hart *after* my shave with this razor produced tons of cut hairs and got me the BBS shave I was hoping for. It was as if my pass with the W&B cut some hair but left most of it on my face, just shorter, if that makes sense.

No microscope to check my work yet.

I used black marker to darken each edge and a tip from Lynn. I took five passes on a 5K super stone, which revealed that on one side only a fourth of the edge, closer to the heel, was contacting the stone at the correct angle. The black line on the rest of the bevel was untouched by those passes. The other side had a shiny line all the way down.

My conclusion is I hadn't set the bevel right the first time. Is this correct?

How should I proceed given the following hone inventory and a basic X-stroke under my belt, but not much else in terms of honing skill.

DMT continuous surface 1200 hone

1K, 5K, 8K Shapton Super Stones

4K/8K Norton

16K Shapton glass

30K Shapton glass

a non-select yellow Coticule and a slurry stone

a dark stone which may be a razor hone, lapped to a grey-green surface, with no identifying marks which I fantasize is an actual Escher (I paid about thirty bucks for it). I don't want to ID it to keep the fantasy alive...

A small Franz Swaty razor hone I use only to refresh razors

(I am currently watching videos and am seeing Lynn demonstrate the circular strokes . Hmm.)