Mike, this is what I did 2 weeks ago. Brushed all bees off of 3 frames of capped brood from a strong hive(brushed the bees into mother hive),put in a deep box, added 2 frames honey and drawn comb to fill out box. Took new deep(split) to another strong hive, took the inner cover off, placed an excluder on, then new deep box(split) on top of excluder,then inner/outter cover.Let that for 2 days. During that time the nurse bees from lower boxes came up to care for capped brood and also had some older bees(but not many) due to a top entrance. On day 3,I took split deep off and on top off excluder put a layer of plastic sheeting to basically separate the two hives, then put a caged queen in the new split for them to get use to. I let the queen stay in cage for 3 more days(it was apparent they accepted her, then let her out of cage). Now the split is doing great and have no doubt it'll produce surplus honey this year. With our cold/wet spring here this year, having the heat from lower boxes heating the new split on top has been a bonus. This method is covered in Allen Dicks web page, and it is easy and heads above other split methods I've used. This next week, I'll take new split off the mother hive and move to new location, thus 2 strong hives. Good luck. PP