Although it's more time consuming I've been an advocate of reverse honing for a few years.

Apply a shaving edge first, then back into a good bevel with every failure.

Spending hours trying to develop a good bevel, and hoping you know it when you see it, takes away most of the razor's geometry that could have created a good bevel in the first place.

Using a 1K stone, although effective, is also like sculpting wood with a flame thrower.