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Ben,
Just keep at it. Take this post for example. A month and a half ago I couldn’t do anything with my plane. Fast forward to today when I sharpened my iron after I was done in the shop it took me 3-4 min (wasn’t counting) and I was shaving hair off my arm.
Maybe a honing guide will help you. Check this one out I used my sliding bevel gauge set to 30 degrees (after I learned what 30 degrees actually was) and used the bevel gauge as a reference. You could be right and the bevel on your iron is way off. It was suggested to me in this post to correct my mistake (too steep of a bevel) to rough it out on a bench grinder and if I didn’t have a bench grinder to make friends with someone who has one.