PW,
The fact that you're new to honing and still getting decent results deserves some Bravo.

I found myself exaggerating the rolling x stroke and either muting or growing the width of the bevel at the point. Ace tells you right, here. Now throw a smile into the spike point, and it cranks up the importance of following the spine/bevel curve. If the smile is pronounced, it would be hard to do without a arcing stroke, sometimes called the 1/2 moon stroke.

Depending on how urgent it is for you to have a perfectly sharp point - I'm with Unit here - a slightly elevated rate of touch up will bring it were you want it without removing all the metal and getting no use out of that wear. I have one blade where I let a user try it. He had 'the beard of steel'. It came back looking like a cross-cut saw. One divot was deeper than the rest. I honed, and the deep divot remained. It still shaved beautifully, so I let the divot remain. It keeps shaving wonderfully, so I don't worry about it. By deep divot, I can see it with crappy eyesight, but that's about all.

Keep up the good work on the stones. A few hundred blades from now, it'll be easy.