I recently purchased a coticule/Belgian Blue whetstone combo stone, and after reading all the info about the dilucot and unicot methods, a strange thing occurred to me. Both methods recommend stropping about 60 times on linen and then 60 on leather after honing before shaving. Given the amount of stropping (especially on linen), could the "magic" behind the comfortable edge that coticules produce be caused more by the stropping afterward than the stone itself? I haven't shaved directly off the stone, but it seems like it could be that a comfortable edge comes more from stropping than any particular finisher? Please forgive if this is heresy, it was just a thought that crossed my mind.