Having messed up my first attempt at dummy boards, I had originally thought of sticking another piece of plywood onto the existing too narrow ones. But with time running out and my trusted friend and ally, the DT teacher, actually teaching and therefore not available to cut up plywood with or for me, I had to think of another way.
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| Glueing the sidebars onto my new perfect dummy boards |
The solution I came up with was to just stick sidebars onto the dummy top bars. As these did not have the slots, I had to saw off the top part of the sidebars. As I didn't want them as broad as the self-spacing brood frames, I also planed down the sidebars, so they were only as wide as the top bar.
So, now I really do have the perfect dummy boards!
If I were to do it all again, I would use the shoddier top bars (see my entry about making the brood frames), take out the wedge bar and instead of sidebars or wax, I'd glue a piece of ply measuring 295x356mm (I got these measurements from the net, but will try to verify them) to the top bar and then glue the wedge back in place.
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