To use a queen excluder between brood box and feeder?

[Teemore]

But if the feed holes/mesh is in contact with wood, wont it just continually wick?

As posted earlier, just make sure that the area of punched holes is directly above the feed hole.

 

[MandF]

Yeah, Im just postulating as to why the OP had his contact feeder on sticks.

 

[alanf]

If the contact feeder is home made, just make sure that the area of punched holes are directly above the feed hole.

Possibly. The improvised ones I have seen are catering sized jars (2 kg or more?) with a round area of holes punched in the middle of a wide twist off lid. Something like the gherkin jars that chip shops use. Two or three straight twigs hold it 5 or 6 mm over the board.

Maybe they're a local variation but it works for the people who use them. If the holes were punched to fit the typical porter escape sized hole, placing an opaque lid precisely over the hole every time is asking a lot. First sign of getting it wrong could be dribbles of syrup out the bottom of the hive. Adding supports allows a little more leeway.