>How does one get the wax cup off the wooden mold once the cup has been
dipped and built up?

Mike, it used to be common practice to make a rack of 17 or 18 of the shaped
dowels all equally spaced, and to dip the lot, resulting in 17 cups at a
time.  Then place them down together on the cell bar, and use a turkey
baster to run a bead of molten beeswax along their bases.  In a few moments,
you could pull (rock) off the entire rack, leaving 17 cell cups glued to the
cell bar.

This practice has largely gone by the wayside, since bees prefer JZ's BZ's
plastic cups to wax cups, both on cell bars, and for naturally-made cells
when the used cups are left on the combs.

BTW, I'm currently photographing a very simple way for small scale
beekeepers to raise queens using the plastic cups.

Randy Oliver

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Randy Oliver
Grass Valley, CA
ScientificBeekeeping.com

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