Hi Aaron. I was running the rounds for a few years and basically decided to give it up in favor of cut comb. The packaging for rounds gets expensive and if you wholesale them like I was doing, it isn't worth the reduced overall production per hive. With cut comb you can extract it if it doesn't look nice. Plus, there have in recent years been new containers on the market which are cheap and ideally suited to cut comb. On the other hand, the sections will granulate slower, in my experience (but the larger combs can be frozen & kept until needed and then cut). I have also done away with the need for foundation sheets in the shallow frames by wedging a 1" or so wide strip of foundation into the top bar groove with three small (1") pieces of cardboard. This is quick and easy. Bend the cardboard and shove it into the groove with hive tool, pinching foundation strip in. Upon cutting the finished product, a narrow ridge of comb is left for the bees to build onto next time. Usually they will follow it. I wasn't producing loads of sections, about 1500/yr, but the rounds were my only supers at that time. I split the colonies into 2-queen units like John Hogg has described in the literature, one chamber per queen. That really got them into the supers. They wanted to swarm, though, badly. Later on i gave this up and I tried reducing colonies at swarming time (early-mid May) to 4 good frames of mostly capped brood and the queen (remove swarm cells!) in the single brood chamber, the balance being filled with empty combs. The rest of the brood with adhering bees made up a new colony for another stand. Supered the parent, single brood chambers with round sections. The results were amazing. The bees in the parent colony gave up on queen cell building and went crazy in the sections. Still had all the field bees and evidently enough brood kept emerging to keep things at optimum. Had I left more brood I think they would have kept building swarm cells. Anyway, hives had sometimes 6-8 cobanas (over an excluder) in a short time. No more swarming trouble and beautiful sections. Splits were re-united in August providing nice new queens. I then would get a crop (inconsistent) of fall honey sections. Basically, I loved the idea of the sections but there was too much luck (work?) involved in getting the bees up onto them and in getting them completed evenly every year. Actually a more striking reason for me is that I couldn't well afford the supers as I was expanding. Richard Taylor seemed disappointed I might add, when I gave them up. In my experience the bees produce more honey pound for pound when given frames than when given sections. It is crucial, however, for cut-comb that the package looks sharp. I have seen many hideous packages that make it look terrible. I had a lot of luck with the midget cut comb boxes which are 2 1/2 inches square. They sell great but the clear plastic boxes are also too expensive IMO. Food for thought. If you can get a great price and can buy the rings, caps, etc. in large quantities then you're probably all set. If you have good crops that you can pretty much count on, all the better. If I'd had the capital I probably would have gone with the rounds for good, then concentrated more on management and choice of locations. But I began inheriting regular supers and wanted to just have one comb/extracted frame for uniformity. I haven't tried the Hogg sections but I have corresponded with John. The units I saw advertized were still pretty pricey. I feel comb honey should be more prominent on the market. People find it interesting and they will go a long way to get it. Good luck in your endeavors; always make the package look superb and it will sell itself. This is easy with the sections you are using. But I've also seen underweight, uncapped, and leaky rounds on the market which do us no favors in promotion. (I think the opaque cover on one side is a lousy idea too.) Wishing you a huge 96 crop with nice white cappings.... JWG P.S. The best bees I've tried for the sections are Buckfast. They work cleanly with nice wax and without much swarming tendency. You might give them a try for fun. Joel Govostes Freeville, NY