>MB, i just have a question about the wooden guides... how do you keep them on? I already cut kerfs in my TBs, so do you staple them on? I was going to do the wax too, but am now considering the wooden guides.
Many things would work fine. If you cut some strips to fit the kerfs (probably 1/8") and glue them in with exterior carpenters glue, that will work. You could even wax them in, but I'd use the glue myself as a hot day won't make them fall out. You can also just fill the grooves with wax, as you had planned, it's just that the wood seems to be more reliable as far as getting the bees to follow it. But they usually will follow the wax as well.
I'd plan on feeding empty bars into the brood nest from time to time between your straightest comb to get more nice comb as you go.