Ooops, I cant be the first one to do this...

I guess it could be a problem as the bearing for boxes above is reduced by half. I've had the rabbited end split due to using too much leverage force with a hive tool so the weight of full supers might cause a crack too.

Very easy to fix in a couple minutes, though. Rip a 3/8"x3/4" strip and glue it onto place.

Never made that particular mistake, but I've cut the same box joints on both the long and short sides rather than the layout required to fit them together. That's not quite so easy to fix. (And how my first nuc boxes came into existence.)

Wayne

Cut a scrap piece to fit, glue and staple.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Make them into some Dadant Jumbo supers.

Otherwords - square.

Experiment.

Have fun.

Goodluck

You can always just cut them down and make shallow supers. Or cut the long boards down to make end boards and scrap the rest.

Everybody needs a scrap pile. Start one. Kindling.

But my scrap pile is saw dust. And at times that is used.

They will fill it with burrcomb and propolis and glue to whatever is on top, a box or a lid. I think I'd cut out a strip to fill it with, as others have said.

"Any of you experienced folks think the extra rabbeting is going to cause problems down the road?"
I would flip it over and put the rabbet on the outside bottom.

My-smokepole said:

But my scrap pile is saw dust. And at times that is used.

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Then use it. Every time you see that box it'll be a reminder of the mistake you made. I have enough of those in my memory bank I don't need a physical reminder. But, hey, it's up to you. And we are all human.

I'd just use it the way it is.

Use it like it is or place a filler in it. Mark it if it worries you and you can be gentle when prying against that edge. In the mean time it is a box that the bees will use and nothing is lost.

I decided to cut them off at 16 1/4 and turn them into short sides. Stopped and picked up another 1x12 and remade the long sides.
Now I have 4 deeps instead of 2, and I don't have to worry about the bees fixing it for me.