Hey hey hey Just an ordinary day!

[Perry]

Building deeps (not in depth so I posted here). Best viewed while listening to Ordinary day by Great Big Sea! 

First, get some lumber, mine is 7/8" X 9 3/4"
Cut it to the lengths you want, mine is 19" for the sides and 16 3/4" for the ends.
Then I cut the rabbets for my corner joints, I leave a 1/2" behind to give me the 20" overall length I'm looking for.
Then I reset the dados and cut my frame rests in.
Easy, except the mess and clean up.







You should end up with a whack of wood that looks like this.

[DLMKA]

I bought myself a used radial arm saw off Craigslist a while back for cutting boards to length, much easier and safer than trying to push a 10' board across the tablesaw with a miter gauge. A sliding miter saw would work too.

[Marbees]

Nice work Perry.
I already (before beekeeping) had a sliding miter saw, so I use it for the length cuts.

[Perry]

Both of you guys found the fault in my pics. Where you see the board resting on the live trap is where my sliding compound miter saw was. I had to move it so I had the room to run the dados on the table saw. I never cut stuff to length on a table saw, got jammed to many times, it's flat out dangerous.
Good catch!

[DLMKA]

how do your boxes with rabbet joints hold up? I build nuc boxes with rabbets and it was a breeze to cut and assemble but I've always done box joints in the past.

[Perry]

I've never had one fail yet. I like the fact that there is only half the end grain exposed as to the finger joints. I have had finger joint boxes go away in the corners when water lays in there, even just a bit. That, and the rabbets are 10 times as easy and simple to do. When you are talking 60 deeps and 60 mediums,there really isn't a choice to be made.

[Slowmodem]

Easy, except the mess and clean up.

And what do you do with all that sawdust?

[Perry]

Do you need some? 
Absolutely free, just pay for the shipping and handling.

[Slowmodem]

Do you need some? 
Absolutely free, just pay for the shipping and handling.

mulch and compost.  great to mix in with other stuff.   

[blueblood]

Oh yeah, good stuff!

[LazyBkpr]

Go Perry GO!!!
  Bought 180 dollars worth of wood today.. enough for six more hives because I already have the plywood..
  If any of you hunt, or know those who are deer hunters, they LOVE free sawdust to spread on the floor under the deer when they are hanging.  I have a guy that gives me a 55 gallon trash barrel to toss the wood scraps in. he uses them for kindling and picks them up when I call him to say the barrel is full.  He did tell me I had to slow down, so i told him he needed to let his fire go out more often. 

Six more hives will put me at close to 30 hives ready for bees!!  Well, one of them will become an end table, but hoping that will be enough to get me through this coming year. I doubt I will be using two supers on many of them, so in a tight spot I can make hives out of the supers.. All depends on the cut outs and swarms caught...

   Is it SPRING YET!!??!!   

[tefer2]

I slide a plastic tote under the table saw to catch at least some of the sawdust Perry.
It will catch most of it.

[Perry]

This is one of those replies where I go "Doh! why didn't I think of that?"  Good idea.