Thread: Honing Advice appreciated!

Hi there, thanks for reading through my story, and even more thanks if you can help me out

I'm touching up my razors with a coticule + hanging strop with red paste for a few years now, like I was told to. (But the guy told me other things that later occurred to be untrue).
So after reading a lot over here, and after touch ups not being enough any more to keep some razors sharp enough, I decided to go for a synthetic stone. As the shipping cost to get a Norton 4K/8K to Belgium was rather expensive ($44 if I recall correctly, and then I'm still in the dark about taxes being levied when the stone coming in to Belgium) I decided to buy a Wüsthof 3K/8K (well, it was a bit confusing, it was 1000/2000 French standard, 3000/8000 Japanese standard, which should be about what the Norton is).
So, i lapped the stone with sandpaper, learning with the first strokes, that the grit of the sandpaper contaminated the stone (as dares to happen with the Norton I read), so i used my coticule slurry stone (it was all I could think of) to clean the surface, and than the razor slided smoothly over the surface.
I started doing circles on the 3K side, and after being able to shave arm hair, went through a little pyramid, until it (to my opinion at least) popped arm hair.
A test shave was unsatisfying though. Pulling, not shaving well, so I switched to my well sharp Bartmann, and finished the job, sure to give the honing another try the next day (being today).
I read some more today before starting (Lynns tips & thoughts on honing), and noticed my spine had some pretty uneven wear on it. So today, I decided to tape the spine (no to do any more damage), and take it nice smooth and light, testing a lot, not to do any excessive honing.
40 circles on each side on the 3K gave me a razor that shaved armhair. Though the tip wasn't that good. So i very gently did some 45° with rolling (not exactly rolling, but more what gssixgun shows in his smiling wedge vid (at this point in time I should thank him for the effort put into the vids, in stead of making fun of him... sorry first and last time, I swear, wish I could hone like that). And so i got the tip shaving arm hair as well. Then I went through the pyramid, starting at 10, achieving a good result on most part of the blade, except on the tip. So I did some more of the "rolling" strokes, until I thought it was time for another test shave.
At first it was comfortable and smooth. Until I went for the second cheeck... By then the razor was about dull enough to sit on it without hurting yourself...
And now I'm a bit lost... I don't know if anyone here has some experience with a Wüsthof hone, though I think the problem has more to do with me, and almost nothing with the stone... Am I over-honing?
Well, as the title says, any advice will be very much appreciated.
Some pics to try and make things more clear.