Finished!

As of today, I am now finished with all of the assembling, oiling, and painting accociated with the building of a new hive! Since my last post I have:

Painted the hive body

Painted the bottom boards

Modified the bottom boards to become screen bottom boards

Assembled 2 honey supers

Painted 2 honey supers

Assembled 20 frames to go in the honey supers

Assembled the inner and outer covers

Oiled and painted the inner and outer covers

And nailed a metal cover onto the outer cover.


Tomorrow, I'll be dropping off my hive (with 8 frames) to have bees put in them. I'll be picking it up in April, when they are full of bees!

Hive Pieces

Here is what I have assembled so far:

The Hive Body:

Ten of these frames:

And the Bottom Board:



Here is what the hive will look like with frames in it:



Also, in response to a comment, I have had to put 324 nails in so far.


In other news, I now have a gallery for bee pictures!
Link!


Does this post satisfy the need for pictures?

Assembly

At my class on the 2nd, I got all of the pieces to build my hives. I will have to assemble 10 frames and the brood box before the March class. In addition, all of the wooden pieces, excepting the frames, will need to have a coat of linseed oil (to help prevent decay) and 2 coats of paint put on. So far, we have assembled the frames and the brood box, and put oil on the box. I'll be updating soon with pictures.

Next weekend, I'll be putting the first coat of paint on. After that I'll need 1 more coat of paint, and the hive will be ready to put bees in!