Jorg asked:

"Chris,what are your thoughts on using a TBH with frames? Picture a 
single deep 36 frame box, each frame glued to a bar."

That would be very like Robin Dartington's long deep hive. Google
'Dartington Hive' to see it.  His design uses standard top bars and so 
can be supered, using half sized and therefore lighter supers, but I 
suppose extra wide top bars could be substituted so that there is less 
than a bee-space between them (propolis is one of the harvests of the 
TBH).

If you're using frames, though, you'll also be subjecting your bees 
unnecessarily to all the stresses of foundation: unnaturally uniform 
cell size, chemicals in the wax, unnatural comb shape, difficulty in 
drawing comb etc.

Chris

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