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I forgot to mention that everything started coming together after I dressed the wheel, it was out of parallel to the universal support.  Visually it looked OK, but the high side of the taper coincided with the low side of the out of squareness on the iron.  Learning point is to more carefully assess the parallism (spelling?) of the wheel.

I think I got it, the iron is square to the sides.  I set the iron in the plane and it cuts smoothly with whisper thin shavings, although I still had to skew the iron a little.  During this process I learned a lot about my technique, I sharpened another plane iron which was square to start with, and I managed to keep it square during the sharpening process.
Thanks for eveyones help and advise.
Jeff

I have a quality 2" Engineers square, which I'm pretty confident is accurate, to confirm I checked it against my Starrett and it looks good.  I just checked the iron from both edges and have confirmed that the iron cutting edge is out of square to the iron sides.  I think I need to continue to get the iron square to itself as you suggested.

Steve/Herman
I have sharpened all my chisels and they seem fine, but they are also quite a bit narrower than the plane iron, maybe the effect of my technique is less noticeable???  I followed the advise and did pull the chisel "more towards square", but still not right on.  After grinding for a while, I rebuilt the plane and didn't see so much difference, now I'm wondering if the frog has been ground square in the plane body.  It's a brand new Stanley "Sweetheart" low angle block plane, not the most expensive, but still not a cheap plane, so I'm thinking it should be OK.  Before jumping to that conclusion, I will continue sharpening until I get it square.
Thanks for the advise
Jeff

Thanks Steve, I'll attempt to re square the iron today and report back.

Thanks for the reassurance that I haven't ruined the iron.  It's a new iron so there's plenty of material left to recover, it's a little less than 1/16" out of square.  I was pretty careful about keeping it up against the shoulder of the jig, also checked the grindstone for squareness, so it must have been my technique.  What is best technique for getting it back to square?

I think I may have ruined a perfectly good block plane iron.  I didn't check before it I started the sharpening process for the first time, but after grinding it is significantly out of square.  I set the iron into the plane and had to skew it all the way over to get the iron square to the frog.  Any ideas on how I can reclaim the iron, I do not have any other grinder except the T7?
Jeff

Reading both your responses I got the sense that I didn't apply sufficient oil at the beginning of the conditioning process.  Last night I just added some more oil without trying to clean the wheel.  This morning the leather seemed to have softened up, when I get home this evening I will try to hone a chisel without scraping the excess honing compound off.

Thanks for the feedback, that's exactly the type of discussion a new user like me needs to hear.
Jeff

Sounds like a plan, I'll let you know how it goes.

Great, thanks for info, I will try that tonight.  I used 3 in 1 oil, do you think that will work?

I am a new user, picked a T7 up on the weekend, mounted everything per instructions.  I added light oil to the honing wheel, then a smear of honing paste and distributed it on the wheel using a chisel.  Before I left for work this morning I checked the honing wheel and it seemed a little hard and dry, is this normal??
Jeff