Wait, you're seriously asking if a support post is a steel beam? @noah_black, a post is a column, like a pole holding stuff up. A beam goes across the top. Hiding a steel post is the easy part, you just box it in with old looking wood. The real trick is hiding a big new beam in the ceiling without it dropping down and looking weird.

Yeah, a sharp hoof knife with a curved blade changed the game for me. I stopped fighting with the old straight one and could clean out the seat and bars in one clean motion. Went from picking at it to just rolling my wrist.

Simonreed makes a fair point about bots, but that first spark when your work finds an audience is real. It's like when a local shop you love suddenly gets a line out the door. The numbers might get fuzzy, but that initial connection matters.