Hi All

> Our frames are usually made of cheapo pine.  The honey isn't  affected.

I think the reason that cedar is not commonly used is aesthetic rather 
than any other objection, white pine 'looks' clean.

As I was an equipment manufacturer I often had offcuts of cedar and 
other hardwoods and used them up in making frame parts for my own bees, 
in the main the bees did not make any distinction apart from some strong 
smelling exotic woods that they propolised heavily.

Fifty years ago lime (linden) was quite widely used in UK, but its 
fibrous nature gave rise to rather more propolis accretion than I was 
prepared to put up with.

I have come across many cedar frames that were made during the 1930s, 
some of which were still in use in the 1980s, having been boiled in 
caustic soda (lye) many times and re-waxed.


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