Great start to what looks like it's going to be an amazing series. Unfortunately I won't be able to use your plans (I don't have the tools, plus, where I am in the mountains of Japan, western bees are rapidly killed off by hornets so that only Japanese "nihon-bachi" bees can survive, and they generally prefer a different style of hive...), but I'll be following nonetheless, if only to admire your workmanship!
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Thank you so much!! Well if you ever find yourself with the tools, I'm told for Japanese bees you would just skip the frames all together and go right to building the hive box, because they do not use frame structures within their hives. Thank you so much for the follow and kind words!!❤
Yes, you're right: hives for Japanese bees have no more than two "cross-beams" inside each level. I actually inherited two hives which I a m very keen to use just as soon as I have got my land cleared and vegetable production under way.