>>>It is an ISSUR DEORAYSA to cut your beard.
Am haartzus. It depends on how you remove it
>>>There is a well known story that a Bachur came to Rav Shteinman and asked if he could shave his beard. etc.
Baloney. In the pictures of Rav Steinman as a bochur and yungerman he didn’t have a beard either.
>>>The Chafetz Chaim wrote a whole Sefer against cutting your beard
More like a pamphlet. And as Rav Moshe Feinstein told someone who was trying to get him to oppose shaving due to that pamphlet. “I wish some of the people who tumult about growing beards would have a tenth of the Yiras Shomyin of the bocurim who were learning by the Chofetz Chaim. None of them had beards”
>>>A Rabbi by the name of Reb Moshe Viner wrote a two volume set with all the mekoros and letters of the Gedolim about cutting your beard.
I didn’t look at the sefer but I’m 100% confident it is limited to those who oppose not having beards. With a possible exption made for those who hetter for shaving was too well known to ignore. Along with a reason not to pasken like. I’m sure it doesn’t include gedolim like Rav Gustman who emphatically told my father during some anti shaving with a shaver tumult “shoin ah upgepasknta shaaola as mehn meg” (it has already been paskened that you may use an electric shaver)