Pictures of my home made hives

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harvey

June 16, 2010, 11:22:44 AM
These looked pretty good to me so instead of painting them I used polyurethene.



These will be for my uptown bees!

asprince

#1
June 16, 2010, 11:38:48 AM
Nice work!

Steve
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jgaito

#2
June 16, 2010, 11:42:09 AM
i went with the same handles on mine.  easy and very functional for non migratory hives.
i'm hoping to try out my new lock miter bit this weekend on a couple deep boxes.

pondman

#3
June 16, 2010, 07:57:49 PM
Very good looking hives you have there. Nice Job.

Pondman

HomeBru

#4
June 16, 2010, 11:52:52 PM
Quote from: jgaito on June 16, 2010, 11:42:09 AM
i went with the same handles on mine.  easy and very functional for non migratory hives.
i'm hoping to try out my new lock miter bit this weekend on a couple deep boxes.


We used a lock miter bit on ours and they're tougher than nails! Titebond waterproof glue and I'm sure the joints will last longer than the wood.

J-

Bee Happy

#5
June 17, 2010, 12:03:54 AM
Niiice! Is that 8 frame? screened bottom?
lock mitre?
be happy and make others happy.

wd

#6
June 17, 2010, 12:08:01 AM
Nice, looks like they'll work for awhile eh... any rn pheasant pics ?

Old Blue

#7
June 17, 2010, 01:30:14 AM
Great looking hives Harvey!

Please keep us posted on how the finish holds up.  I really like the look.

Old Blue

jgaito

#8
June 17, 2010, 10:01:49 AM
Quote from: Bee Happy on June 17, 2010, 12:03:54 AM

lock mitre?

it's a joint made by a router.  allows a strong joint with 45 degree corners eliminating all exposed endgrain.
http://www.rockler.com/findit.cfm?page=2142

TheMasonicHive

#9
June 17, 2010, 04:53:18 PM
Hey Harvey.  I live down the road from you.  Do you think you'll ever build to sell?

I'd be interested!
Christopher Peace
Oakland County, MI

"It teaches us that, as we come into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones; never sitting down contented while our fellow-creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves." - Freemasonry on the Beehive

harvey

#10
June 17, 2010, 11:27:47 PM
Don't know,  will see how bored I get this fall and winter.  I also want to build up a half dozen nucs,  figure if I end up with ten hives this year I may very well have to do some splits next year?   Not sure if there will be a market around here for nucs but maybe?

vermmy35

#11
June 17, 2010, 11:45:17 PM
Nice job.  I think we all start making our own hives at some point.  I spent the first weekend of June making 2 deeps and 5 med honey supers they came out great and I can't wait to make some more in a week or two.
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jgaito

#12
June 18, 2010, 12:55:59 PM
Quote from: vermmy35 on June 17, 2010, 11:45:17 PM
  I think we all start making our own hives at some point. 

i built mine at the onset of getting into the hobby and learned so much about beekeeping in the process.   i have this thing about building my own 'stuff' whatever the situation.  not that i think i can do it better, just that a can do it.    there's a unique satisfaction in watching the bees utilize my creation.

TheMasonicHive

#13
June 18, 2010, 05:46:19 PM
Quote from: vermmy35 on June 17, 2010, 11:45:17 PM
Nice job.  I think we all start making our own hives at some point.  I spent the first weekend of June making 2 deeps and 5 med honey supers they came out great and I can't wait to make some more in a week or two.

Actually as long as you have some nice strong stock (preferably from a swarm) I'd be interested in a nuc for next year!
Christopher Peace
Oakland County, MI

"It teaches us that, as we come into the world rational and intelligent beings, so we should ever be industrious ones; never sitting down contented while our fellow-creatures around us are in want, when it is in our power to relieve them without inconvenience to ourselves." - Freemasonry on the Beehive

luvin honey

#14
June 18, 2010, 08:39:30 PM
Very nice, Harvey!
The pedigree of honey
Does not concern the bee;
A clover, any time, to him
Is aristocracy.
---Emily Dickinson

hardwood

#15
June 18, 2010, 09:31:16 PM
Good job! X:X X:X
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Theodore Roosevelt 1907

Two Bees

#16
June 18, 2010, 10:08:34 PM
Those hives are TOO nice.  My bees probably wouldn't live in them.   :-D
"Don't know what I'd do without that boy......but I'm sure willin' to give it a try!"
J.D. Clampett commenting about Jethro Bodine.

melliphile

#17
June 19, 2010, 11:28:18 AM
Harvey, Nice work! What was the cost per hive? Do you make frames ,too?
"Never discourage anyone who continually makes progress, no matter how slow." -Plato

harvey

#18
June 19, 2010, 10:40:07 PM
I figure I got a hundred and ten dollars into material for three bottom boards, three inner covers, two telescoping covers and four deeps. plus the polyurethene.  Not to bad I think.  I ordered 100 un-assembled frames for 73 dollars.  Glueing them together with tite-bond III.  I am betting they will be as strong as those that are stapled,  As the deep frames will be for brood only they will take a lot less abuse so I believe with just good glue they will hold up fine.  Pretty sure buy building  my own boxes I am getting them for about a third the price of store bought ready to go  about a quarter the cost if you add in shipping! 
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