. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. lin'K-MAKING. 118 IIIVE-MAKING. slides, tlie indvable side being removed. Xow set the beveling iilntforni so close to tlie s;nv tli;it you ean cut the strip clear off. leaving the desired shoulder, as in the cut. ?.\(i OKI-. IIK crojecting arm of the toi> - l>ar is also i inch, the shoulder, .V,will bejust * inch lower thauthe shoulder, ('. You will that I have calculated for § between the \ii)iier and lower frames, and between the bottom of the frames and the bottom of the hive
. The A B C of bee culture: a cyclopaedia of every thing pertaining to the care of the honey-bee. lin'K-MAKING. 118 IIIVE-MAKING. slides, tlie indvable side being removed. Xow set the beveling iilntforni so close to tlie s;nv tli;it you ean cut the strip clear off. leaving the desired shoulder, as in the cut. ?.\(i OKI-. IIK crojecting arm of the toi> - l>ar is also i inch, the shoulder, .V,will bejust * inch lower thauthe shoulder, ('. You will that I have calculated for § between the \ii)iier and lower frames, and between the bottom of the frames and the bottom of the hive. Well, i inch would be still better tlitui 8. if we were sure the lum- ber would never shrink by after-seasoning so as til make it any less than i. As it will shrink some in spite of us, I think we would better calculate on S. This is also the dis- tance we need between the frames and the outside of the hive, all around; not more than S, and not less than i. In cutting out your rabbet, you will, of course, first cut down from A, and I would gauge from 1) instead of from the sharp edge 15. thus avoiding inaccuracy. When you cut in from rest the stuff on the shoulder. C. and you will have no tnnible in getting the saw-cuts to match nicely. If you have a rabbeting- head. you can take the wood all out at one operation: but then you have shavings in- stead of strips, and it takes a little more power. The strips are of no particular use, it is true: but we find them very handy for sticking up covers, as you will see presently. While I think of it, in the absence of a foot- power saw you can make the bevels and shoulders by grinding a plane in the shape you wish : in this way you can get very nice joints, but it is rather slow business. The body of our hive is nearly all done, except the handles, or, rather, hand - holes- that you lift them by : these are made with a wabbling saw. Sometimes our saws have a fashion of " wabbling,"' just when we would rather they wouldn'
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