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<blockquote data-quote="Dave Black" data-source="post: 874" data-attributes="member: 200"><p>I think what you referred to as a 'drone comb', great name btw, is an uncapping fork. Used as designed (to get under the cap and flick it off) is time consuming. Yes people do turn it over and use it to 'scratch' the seal away, but as you indicate it's quite destructive. Used 'properly' it harvests really good wax for crafts, and reduces the amount of honey mixed in the cappings bucket, particularly compared with knife uncapping. Uncapping with a knife efficiently relies in getting the frames spaced so that the comb extends beyond the framework, and on you being able to separate honey from wax well.</p><p></p><p>So it's the old equation:time vs money, again.</p><p></p><p>Life has no (desirable) short-cuts. 🙂</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave Black, post: 874, member: 200"] I think what you referred to as a 'drone comb', great name btw, is an uncapping fork. Used as designed (to get under the cap and flick it off) is time consuming. Yes people do turn it over and use it to 'scratch' the seal away, but as you indicate it's quite destructive. Used 'properly' it harvests really good wax for crafts, and reduces the amount of honey mixed in the cappings bucket, particularly compared with knife uncapping. Uncapping with a knife efficiently relies in getting the frames spaced so that the comb extends beyond the framework, and on you being able to separate honey from wax well. So it's the old equation:time vs money, again. Life has no (desirable) short-cuts. 🙂 [/QUOTE]
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