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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by animal on May 10, 2024, 12:06:09 pm »

A sign you're getting old, I guess ... finding things funny that seem normal to others ... I've been noticing many "new ones" over the years.

Just curious, but who else chuckled a little ...

When they saw "Laser Projects" under the category of "Farming and Country Life"?

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 10, 2024, 11:37:28 am »

Terri I do not remember if you have mentioned queen cells, (since you are new and taking in a lot of information), I will ask, have you mentioned seeing queen cells in your mentors hive?

Phillip

Not yet but I haven't been there since I got my hive mid April. He said he did lose a swarm so I expect that he does have them. I think it's next Saturday he's supposed to do some manipulations and I've been invited to attend so I'll be on the lookout for them then. I was looking for them in my hive inspections and didn't see anything that looked suspicious. I'm pretty happy with how fast my colony is growing but for all I know, it might be slow by comparison.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Ben Framed on May 10, 2024, 11:25:37 am »

Terri I do not remember if you have mentioned queen cells, (since you are new and taking in a lot of information), I will ask, have you mentioned seeing queen cells in your mentors hive?

Phillip

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Ben Framed on May 10, 2024, 11:21:48 am »

Bill I watched a video of one of the Commercial Beekeepers, (I can't remember if it was Bob Binnnie, Ian Steppler, or someone else), where he and his team used at least 'a' drone comb in each colony. I do not remember hearing him say whether or not this was removed at a later time. Nor do I remember
during the 'time' of the making of the video if there was one used in 'each' Brood box.   

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Terri Yaki on May 10, 2024, 11:17:22 am »

There was a good bit of drone brood on a couple of frames but thanks for the insight. Next time I'll pay more attention to how much drone brood there is and where it's located. The drone cells looked larger to me than my neighbor's did. My neighbor also suggested that I get the frames up closer to the camera so they can be seen by viewers.

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GENERAL BEEKEEPING - MAIN POSTING FORUM. / Re: What did you do in your Apiary/Bee yard today?

« Last post by Bill Murray on May 10, 2024, 10:40:10 am »

Didnt watch the whole vid. It is for Drones. The plastic foundation is not stamped for larger Done cells unless you use the green frames. If you keep on top of it and keep scraping they will eventually build it on the plastic. If not they will keep drawing it between the frames, because they want that amount of drone comb. Approx 20%

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by Lesgold on May 10, 2024, 08:54:41 am »

The brass lid worked well Jim. It looks as though the finish applied to the lid is different to what I have on mine. You a creating some good stuff. Well done.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by Ben Framed on May 10, 2024, 08:37:40 am »

I like what you and Les are doing with your lasers. It appears the possibilities are far and wide!  I hope this topic will continue to proceed and expand with interest.

Phillip

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on May 10, 2024, 08:17:41 am »

A good friend from my AT&T days is building an airplane. He has been working on it for about 10 years. It is now just about finished but t before he can get it certified he hast to have labels on every switch, gage and indicator. We decided on brass plates with a shiny black coating. I thought the engraver would expose the brass when engraved. As you can see in the photo it did not. I sanded one of the plates and as you can see, they are not really brass they are aluminum. I did a test run and they came out pretty good.  We are sending the black brass plates back to Amazon and ordered silver plates. Most of the labels will be pretty small so I will be printing three or four labels per plate.

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FARMING & COUNTRY LIFE / Re: Laser projects

« Last post by BeeMaster2 on May 10, 2024, 08:03:17 am »

I did some engraving yesterday. Mostly working on getting a bee print that Les?s daughter designed to engrave on canning jar lids.



Then I used the same design to create t and engrave birch plywood. They came out pretty good.

Les, let me know if you want to use the files/settings. I?ll send them to you.
Jim Altmiller