Whipped dog has the poor mans strop kit for like 25 bucks ish, you can get a starter brush online for 20 bucks and then a puck of soap for 20 bucks and an old coffee mug...
He can get in for under 100 if he wants to do it cheap (but once the hook is set he will be like the rest of us dropping crazy money on soaps, creams, Razors etc :) )