What did you do in the 'workshop' today

[JamezF]

You could make those clearers deeper?

I put a new super underneath when I put them on, so I've never found the need.

James

 

[jenkinsbrynmair]

but there will come a time when you may not have that luxury

 

[JamezF]

but there will come a time when you may not have that luxury

Then I'll use an eke, or if I get really desperate, a brood box

James

 

[JamezF]

Actually, the brood box is never going to get used. If I don't have sufficient supers then I'll know before I leave home and I can bash an eke together with a few nails and four bits of scrap timber.

James

 

[Swarm]

If you remove the supers and stack them on the boards you won't have to worry either way.

 

[JamezF]

If you remove the supers and stack them on the boards you won't have to worry either way.

Unfortunately that's not an option I have at one of my sites, otherwise I'd be tempted.

James

 

[Penninetrader]

Clearer boards completed.

Hopefully I now have enough to cope with whatever happens next year.

Now, what's next?

James

Unfortunately that's not an option I have at one of my sites, otherwise I'd be tempted.

James

They look very neat with those rabbeted joints at the corners, have you let the ply base in or just nailed through the sides ? Based on what I have seen and read from you I am absolutely certain that you will be organised and have a plan with built in contingency. As for Bash together, naaah

 

[Erichalfbee]

If you remove the supers and stack them on the boards you won't have to worry either way.

I’m a real convert to this method. It’s so simple.

 

[JamezF]

They look very neat with those rabbeted joints at the corners, have you let the ply base in or just nailed through the sides ? Based on what I have seen and read from you I am absolutely certain that you will be organised and have a plan with built in contingency. As for Bash together, naaah

The ply is let into the sides by about 5mm. I probably should have used a router to cut the grooves, but our router table is a cheap one that my father-in-law bought years ago and it doesn't work as well as I'd like so I cut them using the table saw instead, moving the fence along by the width of the kerf until the groove was wide enough. Bit nasty, but it gets the job done.

I have a nice piece of scrap 25mm hardwood ply that I'll use to make a new router table once I can find a suitably-priced router to fit into it.

James