Joe: Making foundation at home is easy and has been done since way back in the late 1890s or so. It got a lot easier with the advent of embossing rollers. We have taught others how to do it now for going on 2 decades and it is not hard. Embossing rollers can in USA be gotten from hawlwey Honey Company in Iola Kansas by calling Raymond Cooper and they are so easy to use. Wax is not brittle when worked right... but there are tricks though not hard. Most when done after being show can take a sheet and bend it in circles and use it and it works so well, whether thick or thinly made and we do thicker for more wax for the bees to use to have to make cell walls faster by thinning the base sort of. You keep it from getting brittle by layering and cooling slowly, and also by addition of propolis scrapings that adds additional benefit of scenting the foundation then to smell like home where they shellac for sterility and homemade foundation is readily drawnout. You also learn to store for aging process also. Respectfully submitted, Dee A. Lusby Small Cell Commercial Beekeeper Moyza, Arizona http://groups.yahoo.com/group/organicbeekeepers/ ____________________________________________________________________________________ Access over 1 million songs - Yahoo! Music Unlimited (http://music.yahoo.com/unlimited) -- Visit www.honeybeeworld.com/bee-l for rules, FAQ and other info ---