Don't the bees repair any damage to the comb that had made during the uncapping process no matter the method chosen?
If a frame is left with high and low spots it more than likely will result in the frame next to it to have high and low spots. Slicing the high spots off allows the beekeeper to place frames uniformly and more often then not the bees will draw the low spots out as opposed to drawing the near frame into the low spot. There is no harm in picking the low spots of a frame with a fork as long as the high spots are sliced even with the top bar. However you can reach the low spots with the curved tip of the hot knife so you don't have two tools to fumble with.
The only way to extract honey form a 'skinny comb/thin comb' is to uncap it; if we are using an extractor. If the low spots can not be reached by what ever method chosen for the initial uncapping; whether that method might be a Chain un-caper, Lyson Steam table, Hot Knife, Simple Harmony slide in preferated type, or Backward un-capper etc. The skinny 'low' area will still have to be opened in order for the honey to be released, (such as a prick type fork for one example on said 'areas of the comb' which can not be reached by popular mechanical methods).
I am not sure but I 'assume' we are talking about the same thing, comb whose foundation is straight, only the bees failed to finish filling it out leaving it skinny or thin if you will, a bit low in some places, (yet capped). {Honey Combs such as I experienced at the 'end' of a flow last season}
Keeping the above explanation of reply 35 in mind, I am asking; As long as the foundation is straight, the bees should repair the damage where we uncapped it? Building it back to proper shape and further building It out too proper thickness during a 'heavy upcoming flow'? Be it a flow the same season or a flow the next season? Especially if this same thin, extracted comb is placed next to a 'proper' 'fully developed' honey comb?
Under these circumstances, shouldn't we with confidence, be able to anticipate our bees repairing 'and' evening out this described thin comb to the proper thickness, along with any damage that might have occurred during the uncapping process?
Now; I would expect just the opposite if the honey comb in question was 'wonky', from a humble beginning of completely foundation-less frame for example, ('if' the foundation was built wonky from its very beginning). It might be safe to assume such a frame of comb would most surely wind up wavy, leaving high and low spots that may not be repaired? We are not talking about this type comb built on uneven foundation. Just the opposite...
Phillip