Heavy Wax Coated Langstroth 10-Frame Deep/Brood Box with Frames and Beeswax Coated Foundation Sheet

New to working with bees at Koinonia Farm, we are building our first hive with these products and are very impressed with the quality and craftsmanship. They were easily assembled and appears to be a very durable product.

I am a first year beekeeper who currently has only two hives. Each of those hives are from different manufacturers and one is wax-dipped while the other was unfinished and I had to find and use genuine tung oil to finish it. I prefer the wax-dipped hive for esthetic reasons and the claim of better longevity than painted hives. The problem I found with both hives was the fit of the boxes were both extremely tight and assembling them require a rubber mallet and the process cracked one of the boxes on each hive. Not so with this Bee Castle deep box! The fit was tight, but precisely fitted, requiring no hammering on the box to assemble, just solid bodily force to make the dovetails fit together perfectly. I didn't have to shave wax out of the dovetail joints to assemble the box. The quality of the frame parts for the wax foundations are equally a precise and quality fit. I simply could not be more pleased. I have two more complete large Bee Castle bee hives on order and can't wait to see if the quality standards are as high as this deep box has proven to be. If so, Bee Castle, you've made a customer for life!

Although it came in so many pieces, the assembly was easy and quick.

Adding a second brood box to both my hives with these was very easy. The wax coating is much thicker than on the Chinese ones I have gotten in the past. The black plastic foundation has plenty of wax on it. Easy to assemble. So far the bees seem to like. We will see in a few weeks if they draw proper combs.

Well made and easy to assemble. Frames are held together with small nails (included) The box has perfectly cut dovetail corners, and held together with screws (included). All the pieces were cut to fit perfect and all was very easy to assemble. The wax coating smelled wonderful and also helped to keep the pieces together while assembling. No need to paint. Would buy again.