Well, I tried to say this in my prior post but it seems I need to say it better. Here goes......

There is no point to move from an 8K hone to a finer one if the edge does not pass your sharpness tests. Your just wasting your time. At this stage a person needs to realize that they have not performed enough laps on the coarser hones, the 4k-6K-8K, and those are the grits they need to revisit to improve the edge, not the finer hones. It is a common mistake for newbies to make.
Yes, you can take a substandard edge and make it shave by excessive stropping but the edge will not last long. Neither the strop not fine grit hones are a substitute for proper honing.
lastly, you can achieve a very good shaving edge from a 8K Norton. Read the JaNorton thread...
http://straightrazorpalace.com/honin...on-2012-a.html
Go back to the 4K & 6K to obtain a far better edge.