> After searching the archives for a hive body jig, with no luck, thought
> I'd ask if anyone out there has made one or knows of plans for making one.

Sure, it's called a "box joint jig", assuming that you want the
"traditional" interlocking-fingers approach.

Here's a decent example, which you will need to modify to do the
bigger wider joints on a hive body or super.

http://www.diydata.com/projects/plans/tool_plans.htm

Scroll down to "Box-Joint Jig", and click.


...and DO buy the "stackable" type dadoo blade for your table saw.

The "adjustable" or "wobbling" type that Sears sells is a pain to
set to the correct width, and not matter how hard I tried, varied
slightly, forcing me to make lots of "test" cuts on scrap and
tweak, twiddle, and frobnicate the width adjustment.

And you want CARBIDE blades.  There is a series of drills and blades
that claim to be "Cobalt" blades being sold at the mega-super home
improvement stores, as if cobalt was a steel tempering additive of
any value.  It isn't.  (Next year, someone will start selling
"Kryptonite" blades.  I will bet serious money on this.)

        jim (Who makes sawdust in winter, and honey in summer)

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