I'm trying for cut comb this year - I've gone for alternating full sheets of thin with small starter strips as I'd read somewhere that it helps them draw it straight. I'll take a photo if I remember to to show their progress. When I last looked, they were just starting to draw it out and had hardly touched the full sheets, while they were making good progress on many of the strips - though one had a curvy bit about to join the adjacent sheet which I took off. Luckily it went to a good use as a friend of mine was looking for samples of wax and other hive products for some research she's doing into the antibacterial properties of hive products (she's looking for samples of honey, wax, propolis or royal jelly from as many apiaries as she can if anyone is interested), so I was able to give her a block of rendered wax as well as some very freshly drawn comb to try. She was telling me that they are having a really hard time trying to get the bacteria to grow on any of the samples they've tried so far.
