garden hive

http://www.dadant.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=88&products_id=1255 We are still in the beginning stages of beekeeping. By that I mean, we haven't even decided on what type of hive to get. We are planning on getting 4-5 hives. I want to get a hive that the bees will do good in but also...

We've built an inital prototype of a fancy garden hive. This is a medium super. We're thinking of having a deep hive body with a banner in the center for a name or farm name. What do you think of the design?

moved to equipment....had in wrong forum.

I have a friend who has several hives worth of BM's cypress Garden Hive boxes and they are all warped (or warping) badly. Perhaps more, or a better glue would have limited the bowing of the box ends, but the fact is that these boxes want to come apart... I'm certain that an non-glued...