Hi Steve, if the cylinder reel is, as I suspect, slightly out of square, you will find it will wear un-evenly.
However you now have plenty of meat on your new bottom blade and plenty on the reel, so just set it through fine tuning as best you can, or better still, take the whole machine to the chap who did the sharpening for you, and get him to fine tune it....That way he can see the prob and may do a re-grind free of charge for you, if he can't set it up correctly.