After a while playing with bees it's not uncommon to find that you have
accumulated lots of variations of the "standard" hive body design.  Some
hand-hold are rectangular, some curved, others beveled on the upper edge to
give a better grip.  If you are running all deep bodies for brood and honey
it gets really hard to maneuver the full boxes just by these indentations.
Even if you have shallower supers, after a few hours gripping heavy boxes
it becomes exasperating.
 
Anybody out there using cleats for hand-holds?  That is,  a 2" (or so) wide
strip of wood nailed across the back and front of each box.  It makes
lifting much easier, and if you attach these cleats along the *top edges*
it reinforces the weak point of the hive body -- along the rabbets.  Some
prefer to nail a cleat at the upper AND lower edge, front and back.  This
allows you to stand the box on end (as when 'tipping'), also it gives you a
nice durable place to jam your hive tool (between adjoining cleats) to pry
the supers apart.  The cleats would certainly be easier than messing with a
saw to get finger-holds cut. Just a suggestion      Regds,  JG