Quote Originally Posted by Bram View Post
I completely agree with this, I use a €5 hone from the local hardwarestore for heavy corrections and setting an initial bevel, from that point on I switch to a coticule with slurry.

you only feel the finishing hone while shaving, not your progression
It's a matter about the destination or the journey to get there.

You are probably right that if you do the job properly the final edge is a reflection of the last hone, or may be it is of the strop.
But if you don't have the foundation before that last hone, or if you don't lay it properly you will not be able to get 100% of what that final hone can offer and the roughness from the previous levels of the progression would still be there.

So, to a certain degree it does matter what your bevel setter is and what your polishing progression is.