BeeCastle 10 Frame Medium Super Bee Hive Box, Langstroth Honey Bee Hive Dipped in 100% Beeswax Include Beehive Frames and Wax Foundations (Unassembled)

The Good: This is a very well made, fairly priced product. I love the color, as well as the protection, that the wax coating gives to the frame box. I added these supers to my "Eco Wood Treated" brood boxes for a contrasting affect. Corner joints are perfectly tight and assembly is simple and straightforward. The kit includes black-finish screws, rather than nails, that go into the pre-drilled holes for the corner joints on the boxes. These help draw everything together and won't work out like nails may. The kit includes small nails that I combined with a dot of wood glue for assembling the frames. The plastic starter sheets for the frames are perfectly sized and wax coated to make them more acceptable to the bees.The Knot-So-Bad: One of my super boxes had a knot in the wood that was right on the finger joint. In retrospect, I should have drilled the hole out a bit bigger or just used wood glue on that joint. At any rate I didn’t, and the corner split a tiny bit. I don't really fault Bee Castle for this. Every pine board will have a knot here and there. This one just happened to be at just the wrong place. The super was really still usable but I contacted Bee Castle about my issue. Without asking me to return the product, they sent me a complete, new, pre-assembled super with frames. Wow. It arrived quite quickly. I am impressed with their desire to keep their customers satisfied and I plan to purchase more of their products in the future.

Very pleased with the quality of these BeeCastle kits. I like supporting US manufacturers and local bee stores, but there's just nothing comparable to these domestically. There is a similar Amazon competitor who has nice supers as well but I like this foundation better. Nicely waxed and smells sweetly of beeswax with a fine edged deep cell pattern. The super is also heavily waxed and made from a combination of solid and linear jointed lumber with no affect to form or function. Very pretty in person. I personally love the grain and knots in the very colorful natural colored lumber. There is evidence of moisture boiling from the board ends so I'm convinced these are hot soaked and not sprayed. True perfect dovetails (not cheap finger joints) that assembled perfectly square- monitor with a framing square as you screw together with the provided TiN finished screws and you'll have identical boxes with no gaps, wobble or overhang. Nice clean deep hand holds too. I didn't use the provided nails for the frames as I glue and secure with an air brad nailer. Not a single split out of 60 frames. Two of the super boards were damaged in transit and the seller responded and replaced immediately. THANK YOU BEE CASTLE. I'll be back for more.

The shipping was fast (prime member), good value for what I paid for as opposed to going directly to the bee supply store, easy to assemble, and perfect size for honey harvesting!

Well made and waxed nicely..great build.

The boxes themselves were extremely easy to assemble. I see other reviewers commenting on the wax coating on the dovetail joints making it difficult to assemble -- this was not my experience. I did have extra wax build-up on the joints, but with minimal force (by hand and some light tapping with a hammer) I was able to press the pieces together and the extra wax simply scraped out of the way. The joints are tight and professional looking. Only complaint so far is that I noticed a couple corners chipped off the dovetails joints in the manufacturing process. I do not believe it will make a difference to the function of the hive, however.

This is the fifth one of these and they are all the same every time. If you are looking for quality and easy to assemble super, this is the one to get. Always builds square with the precision cuts from the factory. Very nice beeswax dipped coating on all boards. Frames are good and they are easy to assemble, tight joints and builds square.

Easy to asseble. Really solid construction. Very high quality. Great value when compared to my existing wooden hives (which started pulling apart after just one year). Bee Castle will be my go-to wooden hive in the future.

Waxed well, easy to put together, perfect fittings, and a great price!