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Personally I would stick with Commercial BB and national supers, a standard national BB is not big enough for a prolific queen. Best of both worlds.

So the tree grease bands work?

Dispatch the queen, ditch the drone brood and boost colony with brood from other colonies, look for queen cells in two days and cut them out. Make sure when you do your splits that there are plenty of bees, look for further QC's and cut those out before you introduce your new queens. Make sure...

All my hives have them, brilliant just to take the roof off and you can see how the bees are doing without removing the crown board.

I use a wine filter bag, pressing is not very efficient to be honest. I pressed some heather last season and was not impressed with the amount of honey left in the wax. Its a good idea to cut the wax out of the frames and warm it before pressing.

I used the 12 side bars I 3D printed, didn't want to waste them as the took hours to print.

Over the years I have alway wondered if there was a method of preventing slugs getting into Nucs. I inspected 11 Nucs today and every single one had slugs in them, all mainly in the rebate where the frames rest. Does anyone have a solution for this? Perhaps wrapping copper wire around the hive...

Is anyone interested in making me an offer on this?

Finally finished cutting down the top bars on Dadant super frames to suit the Mini Plus, crazy that these are cheaper than buying Mini Plus frames!

Finished cutting down the top bars on a load of Dadant Super frames to fit some Mini Plus hives, failed to purchase reasonably prices Mini Plus frames. A few hours on a table saw cutting all the rebates on the one side.

Yes I've used Thingiverse loads of time and have even uploaded my own CAD/3D designs there.

I've been a convert to 14x12, only one BB to inspect, big enough (just) for my prolific queens. You have to be able to handle the frames mind. If I was to start again I would seriously move to Dadant.

All my floors are the 'under floor' entrance type, mice cannot get into the 8mm entrances.

I'm not a lover of stack printing, they take just over 2 hours each to print. If you stack them it more than doubles the time needed.

They work out at .38p per side bar, or so the program tells me! You can print anything, I have even printed queen cages, complete with sliding tops.

I clean forgot I had a 3D printer so thought I'd draw and print one just to see the result, here's the 3D design.

Having fail to find a supplier that will ship to the UK, I have all but decided to make my own. Thanks for the replies.

The only difference in the two frames sizes is the 'Lyson' Frame is 8mm longer. I have measured both as I use both, the bees don't seem to mind.

For sale an Abelo uncapping table/tray. This has a removable perforated bottom tray to allow capping’s to drain. You uncap your frames directly into this table, the cappings fall onto the perforated tray and when left over night the honey drains from the cappings. There is a valve one side where...

Having moved over to the mini plus mating hives last season for rearing queens, I was wondering where others get their ¼ Dadant Frames. Thornes want £3.20 per Frame and Abelo are £9.26 per 6, any help is appreciated.