My very first skep

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Just arrived home after a weekend learning to make skeps I would recomend the course ow to spend evenings making more up

 

[VEG]

that looks really good

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Thanks Craig most of the folkes on the course were bee keepers and I have learned more about bee keeping in 2 days the course instructor is a mature bee keeper of many years.

 

[bee ginnner]

nice job is that barley straw

 

[Silly Bee]

Very impressive, nice one.

 

[Swarm]

Superb!

 

[3bees]

Looks great.

I've been looking for a course on skep making. Where did you go? Who ran it? How much did it cost?

 

[DarynWebb]

Really nice, would love to have a go at making one, maybe one day

 

[Luminos]

You've made it look easy! Bet it wasn't

 

[oliver90owner]

Nice one. Probably too high a quality product for normal swarm collection. Should last for ages, that one.

Glad you used the time to increase your knowledge on beekeeping as well as learning a new craft. Makes it a really cost effective in value for money terms! Well done.

RAB

 

[pigletwillie]

How fab is that.

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Course details

I went to the open air museum at singleton if anybody wan't details please send me private message. It took 10 hrs to make but this is my first attempt I have started the next one looks like it will take me about 8 hrs.

 

[nonstandard]

I'd be intrigued as to what straw you were using and what you used for the binding.

 

[Robbie & Jans Bees]

Rye straw and the binding was rattan it was great fun