I am new to honing, but I have been trying to read up, search and practice on various stones and razors.

My problem is the difficulty of bevel setting. Seems utterly impossible to pass TNT and pop hairs off the arm on the 1k level. If I get drag on TNT and cut arm hair on 1k king stone and then move up to 6k king, after few laps it wont cut hair anymore. I guess I dont have the bevel properly set?

The more serious problem is that the new dovo that I bought wont lay flat on the lapped hones. It seems to have a 'twist' in the blade. I have tried the rolling-x on the side of my 1k stone while helping with the other hand to maintain edge contact through the stroke. In the other direction edge contact is much easier to maintain. I have tried the marker test to make sure that I am touching the whole edge, but despite my efforts I have not been able to set the bevel. The only exception is the toe of the blade where the TNT seems to pass every time.

Now the bevel is no longer same width along the edge, but it is there the along the entire edge. What is the remedy to this problem?