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    Default Foundationless frames and fishing line

    Anyone else having a go with these this year?
    I got the idea initially from a post made by Steve (Rosie) on the old bbka forum.

    frame-natural drawn comb fishing line.jpg comb-fishing line.jpg

    I worked about a dozen frames between a few colonies last year and they seemed to work really well. They draw out the cell size they want at the time, usually drone but not always.
    Sometimes a frame is drawn out and laid up within a couple of days.
    I always place one of these between two existing drawn frames in the middle of the brood nest so that the bees are forced to draw comb parallel to existing frames.

    I bought 50 Thorne second deeps flatpack for £28 from their stand at the UBKA conference in March and I reckon that with the nails and the 30lb fishing line they cost about 60p each.
    I made up half of them this afternoon.

    But the main advantage is lovely clean comb.
    Last edited by Jon; 13-05-2012 at 05:31 PM.

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