Frames

[Kingfisher Apiaries]

How do the big companies like dadant etc. make their frames? CNC?
Kingfisher

[Curtis]

Dadant is "old school"

[magnet-man]

I suspect that all of the big suppliers have some sort of semi custom equipment. Most of it is likely ancient like Kelly's foundation equipment.

[raosmun]

Get a 2009 "Man Lake Ltd." catalog and look at pages 60 & 61. The equipment does not look "antique" to me

[Ross]

Top and bottom bars almost certainly come out of a 3 or 4 sided molder and are then cut to length. End bars would be stamped out of sheets if I were doing it I think.