I "skimmed" 3 frames of honey a couple of weeks ago, and had to try out a solar extractor method mentioned by a gal in Georgia here. I'd guess I scored about 1 ounce per frame. Not sure, if I had to get enough to fill a pepsi can, I'd guess I'd need about 12 - 14 medium frames of wax.

 

I have this here:
http://www.bushfarms.com/beesharvest.htm

But here's the essential part:
"A pound (0.4536 kg.) of beeswax, when made into comb, will hold 22 pounds (10 kg.) of honey. In an unsupported comb the stress on the topmost cells is the greatest; a comb one foot (30 cm.) deep supports 1320 times its own weight in honey."

I suppose if you know how many pounds the frame you are concerned with weighs you could estimate how much wax it takes to hold it.

 

On average, I have found a medium yields about 30 lbs. of honey. Then there is what is left in the wet combs.
That would make approx. 1 1/2 lb. wax per frame.

 

I have never tried to measure the amount of wax in a frame - but something just don't jive here?

Regards,
France

 

I recently got 2 pounds of wax and 52.5 lbs of honey crushing and straining from 16 medium frames or about 2 ounces per medium frame. That's in the ballpark for what MB said but a lot less than iddee. These frames had starter strips in them originally.

 

So far this year I have kept a close track of how much honey I have extracted from my hives. All of my hives use 9 frame shallows for the supers. By dividing the total honey extracted (all of which has been weighed on a digital scale at + or - 2%) by the number of frames that I have extracted it from, my bees average 3.48 pounds of honey per shallow frame. (BTW last years average was 3.31 lbs per frame)

If you really wanted to know how much beeswax is put into a frame you could weigh the 9 frames with foundation, place them in a hive and let the bees draw and fill them. After they were filled you could extract them and re-weigh them. Add the weight of the cappings, and then subtract out the original weight of the frames plus the foundation. This would tell you how much wax was produced to fill and cap the frames with honey for a given amount of honey that was stored Which could then be translated to how much beeswax it takes to produce a pound of honey..

This still wouldn't tell you how much honey was consumed to produce the wax though. I honestly believe that the amount of honey supposedly consumed to produce a pound of beeswax is just a SWAG!

 

My boo-boo...I meant 1 1/2 lb. per super.

 

1-1/2 to 2-1/2 lbs of wax can be obtained from 10 deep size frames [Ref 10, p193].