In an attempt to keep myself from throwing a wedge through the window I have called it quits for the night... I have a Wester Bro's Yankee Wedge that I have been working on getting honed up. I had tried honing it previously to no avail a while back and decided to give it another go tonight. I checked the bevel with a sharpie to make sure I was using the right thickness of tape, and worked on setting the bevel on a Norton 1k, then moved up to start my 4k/8k pyramid at 25/25 strokes using the X-stroke.

The issue I am having is that I cannot get the toe to sharpen for the life of me. Up until about 0.5" from the tip the blade is wonderfully sharp, popping hairs off my arm quite smoothly. However that last half inch of the blade will not do anything. The bevel appears to be consistently wide from heel to toe. The toe does start to smile a little bit so I tried the whole thing with the 45 degree x stroke, but can't make anything of it.

Does anybody have any advice on how to proceed?