Assembled three follower boards and 23 top bars for the KTBH today. 14 of the top bars are solid, based on Lyonville Fletcher’s blog. The remaining 9 are square bars with the chamfers from cutting the solid bars as comb guide. Need another 2×4 to finish up making the approximately 32 top bars one would need to completely fill a 48″ KTBH. Gotta love a table saw. Should be able to knock together the hive body tomorrow and I may even get to the legs.
Lots of anecdotal posts on the bee forums about packages absconding . I think I may make the extra follower board into a queen “includer” since I have a couple of plastic queen excluders. I will just cut a hole in the follower board and fasten the excluder over it.
Solid Top Bar
Chamfer Top Bar
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