>I just finish reading " Evils of the Double Deep" 
>Bee Culture � November, 2003 by Walt Wright

I see you are just about right up to date, now. :)

>and he talks again about the problem langstroth frame give to bees, as how a
>full drawn cluster wil have a problem with "the break in functional comb"
>and latter a problem when deciding where to place the winter cluster.

Walt is one of the popular small-time bee fiction writers I find most 
amusing.  IMO he starts with obviously valid ideas and builds fantasies on 
them.  I'd love to see him post here.

>It is true that honeybees much prefer to rear brood on the larger expanse of
>comb provided by deep frames. It�s as close as they can get to the
>continuous comb of the wild brood nest in the tree hollow.

That is an observable fact.

>I search bee-l for "functional comb" and "gap between frames" 

Try "Jumbo".  We have discussed this. Also maybe "natural combs"  Be 
sure to use the "Advanced Options" search, not the lame search box, and 
be sure to check the substring box.  The BEE-L search is a bit unusual in that
it looks for all the terms nearby to one another.  There are boolean operators 
which can alter this.  I see the search help is not there anymore.

>Have you discussed about the ideal dimension of the frames (depth wise) if
>any?, does this gap really exist for the bees as a "break", or they can
>handle it quite acceptable while they build "a ladder" with brace comb?

We have talked about brace and ladder comb here.  Personally, I did not scrape 
ladder comb much if it was not too badly in the way.

Farrar, who was arguably a bee expert as opposed to an amateur bee 
theoretician,  went to the opposite extreme from the jumbo and used 
three 6-5/8 boxes for brood.

Interesting topic.

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