"Finished your Warre yet?"... "ermm.. no...but!"

Rather than actually do something on my job list last night here is what I did....
... For those who want play along at home here is what you need. Two top bars, two jars, a router, some wax, a pencil (not shown as in a fine wood-working tradition it is behind my ear).

NB - For those with good eyes; Yes one jar may indeed contain some paint where my daughter has been using it as a wash pot for paint brushes, it will been cleaned before use :)

Now place jars on the top bars in the horizontal centre and draw around (behold proof of pencil presence). Now rout out the area providing somewhere to insert the jars. This helps the jars to remain in place, provides a good seal, keeps the top bars together, and helps it all to fit under roof.

Next drill through using a large drill bit in three places, and then join up the holes. This provides a 9mm (ish) slot. When placed on top bars jars now look like this (Again, I promise to wash off the paint :) ).

Now melt some beeswax to provide a strip across the bottom of the jar so that it is aligned with the top bars. This is the bees starter strip.

Now (in theory) I can put this set up on to the hive to make comb honey in the jar, albeit only two jars at a time. It is also a mini observation hive. The slots can be corked up if they are going to be left in the hive. I will have a go and give an update later. I have already thought of half a dozen better ways of doing this. Please post your ideas for similar.