Thread: Would it be wise...

I'm with Stubear on this. If you are going to do it, do it, there is no point in buying equipment just to practive the stropping. Besides, you should buy a shave ready razor from a reputable dealer to start and not strop it for your first shave.

If you follow the process to learn the shaving techniques described in the wiki, you will not be doing your whole beard for really a couple of weeks. So you need that DE for completion and cleanup for a while.

David