I was interested to read about David Eyre's idea of interspacing cut
comb foundation with drawn foundation.  This only works for me if the
drawn comb is already sealed.  If  it is not sealed then the bees
continue to expand the drawn comb at the expense of the cut comb.  It
was incredibly hot this year when I put in my cut comb foundation and to
my horror a lot of it melted and had to be scraped off of the queen
excluders.  This resulted in a shortage of foundation.  It was towards
the end of the season and I did not want to order more at that time so I
melted some wax, poured it over a sheet of glass, and fitted the
resultant wax sheet to the top inch or so of about one dozen frames.  I
inserted these frames between two sealed frames.  I finished removing
the honey yesterday to find that all of the plain wax frames had been
drawn to some extent (about four were complete).  I think that if I had
done this earlier it would have been as good as foundation.  What do you
think?
--
Harry
Scotland
 
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