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Beekeeping => Do-It-Yourself Plans and Prints => Topic started by: townson on August 10, 2015, 08:13:03 pm

Title: Frames
Post by: townson on August 10, 2015, 08:13:03 pm

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Just got to do some trimming on the end bars and top bar
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: iddee on August 10, 2015, 08:31:21 pm
Grooved or slotted bottom bars?
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 10, 2015, 08:35:53 pm
just ran a Grove with the table saw blade
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: Perry on August 10, 2015, 08:39:39 pm
If you had a jointer the end bars would be easy to trim.
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: iddee on August 10, 2015, 08:41:02 pm
Plastic foundation?
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 10, 2015, 08:45:31 pm
yes plastic
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 10, 2015, 08:47:06 pm
iv got a router table but iv not got the right bit to do that perry
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: Perry on August 10, 2015, 09:36:49 pm
yet!  :) :D
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 10, 2015, 09:49:29 pm
Yes yet then I will be cranking them out
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: LazyBkpr on August 10, 2015, 10:43:23 pm
Cool deal! And yes, step the end bars down or the bees will have a BIG party gluing the entire length together!  ;D
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: apisbees on August 12, 2015, 04:53:45 am
The ends on your top bars? All the commercially produced frames have the ends cut down to 3/8 inch thick with the top of the end bar only dado-ed 3/8" deep to take the top bar. Or do you cut the rabbet on the super ends 3/8 deeper to accommodate the end width of the top bars.
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 12, 2015, 06:21:39 am
In going to cut the end off the top bar down I just put the frame to gethere to see the fit😎
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: Barbarian on August 14, 2015, 04:26:51 am
Different country ..... different system.

I am using very basic brood frames. The side/end bars are plain and the same width as the top bars. No trimming of side bars or top bar lugs/ears. The frames are spaced horizontally and vertically by using fixed castellations/hive spacers. Seems to work.
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 14, 2015, 07:13:08 am
Hi barbarian I was from Manchester before moving to Canada😎 trying to get set up for making frames in bulk
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: apisbees on August 14, 2015, 09:25:24 am
then you need to build one of these
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And also one of this.


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Title: Re: Frames
Post by: Perry on August 14, 2015, 02:35:00 pm
Gotta tell ya Apis, I love the look of that set-up.
I was talking to the new owner of Country Fields Beekeeping Supplies yesterday. He just purchased it, goodwill and all, and has moved it from New Brunswick to just outside Halifax, Nova Scotia. It is really the only supply store in the entire maritime provinces. What is absurd is that we bring in all the woodenware and supplies from Quebec, Ontario or even Manitoba. Last time I looked around here in NS we have plenty of pine, so why is no one doing it here? Tim the new owner, was saying that with the low currency exchange with the US it is driving costs up so high it doesn't make sense not to do something up here. All it would take is the will and investment. I can build most everything I need at a quarter of the price it is to buy, except frames and foundation, they are my 2 biggest expenses.
Title: Re: Frames
Post by: townson on August 14, 2015, 09:59:59 pm
Hi APIs we will have to talk about that I'm working on it perry as you no😎