I have been practicing honing for about 2 months now (mainly smiling wedges) and I believe that my bevel setting is decent. The blades that I have honed are full restoring jobs. I usually start with the 1k and once the razor cuts arm hair I move to the 4/8k and do a pyramid. The thing is that I never get my razors to pass the hht except for a filarmonica 6/8 and an 8/8 henckels that are full hollow. Now here is the kicker after about 40 passes on the linen strop and about 20-30 on the leather and voila hht pass. My question is this normal? And would a finishing stone like the yellow Belgian and or the Chinese would help me?