Hi, his is my first post in a very long time. Just picked up the hobby again recently. I'm trying to hone a SS Dovo that I got a few years ago but didn't use alot. Back then I honed it a little, and shaved with it a few times. I started last night with 1K Norton to set the bevel. The 1K was hitting most of the bevel except three spots. One on the middle towards the toe of the blade, then on the other side at heel and toe. The bevel is wide in other spots but barely anything in those spots I tried putting my finger on these spots while honing but still nothing. Then I tried some more pressure and torquing the blade a bit. This made the water grey up, and I made some progress. A thin bevel with 1K scratch pattern formed in those spots and started to widen. So I had a bevel straight across, just wider in some spots. So I went to Norton 4K. Had a similar experience with this stone but at the end was pretty sure I had 4K marks from heel to toe, same as with 1K. Now after working on the 8K, most of the blade is polished but those three spots seem to be lagging again, and not progressing. I'm tempted just to go back to a coarser grit and keep at it since I made progress like that before but I'm not sure if I should. It seems like a lot of honing for a blade that was very lightly used before and I don't want to mess it up. Any suggestions?

----Michael