Nostalgic Distortion
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Okay, so I started keeping Bee's a few years back after watching some documentary about the "Bee Blight" that's been going on for the past few decades. I'm not typicality one of the save the planet people but the documentary did get me thinking. When I was a kid there were hundreds of honey bees out in the yard on a nice summer day but for the life of me I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen one? I live pretty far up north and @ a pretty high elevation so Bumble Bees are much more common here then Honey Bees but the fact remains that we used to have them & now we don't!
Keeping Bees is a great thing to do for the environment, it's also a huge P.I.A.! I do it for fun mostly, you kinda have to want to do it for it to work? Just this year it cost my well over $2,000 & one very determined bear his life to keep them alive! Grey brew and other diseases are hard enough to ward against let alone a hungry bear that ate my electric fence!
Lol, I don't actually make anything off this but selling honey and Beeswax helps supplement the cost of keeping the Bees? The past few years I've sold off my Honey @ a local Farmers Market & I had a lady who bought all my wax to make delicious smelling candles but she recently passed so I thought I'd try a different approach this year? This has been made to Leo's specks, 60/40 paraffin/beeswax but I can do a 80/20 mix like Fralin uses, 70/30 is supposed to be optimal but I guess it all comes down to taste, no pun intended...
There's a lot of debate over whether the kind of wax used actually does anything to the tone & I don't have the answer? Personally I think beeswax gives you more of a "airy" P.A.F. tone but that could just be in my head? I can tell you that beeswax is harder & more dense than most other waxes & I'm sure that does something on some level but if nothing else your pickups are going to smell delicious, LOL!!!
Let me know how much you need & I'll give you a price, the wax itself will be fairly cheap but remember I have to mail it to you afterwards...
Okay, so I started keeping Bee's a few years back after watching some documentary about the "Bee Blight" that's been going on for the past few decades. I'm not typicality one of the save the planet people but the documentary did get me thinking. When I was a kid there were hundreds of honey bees out in the yard on a nice summer day but for the life of me I couldn't remember the last time I'd seen one? I live pretty far up north and @ a pretty high elevation so Bumble Bees are much more common here then Honey Bees but the fact remains that we used to have them & now we don't!
Keeping Bees is a great thing to do for the environment, it's also a huge P.I.A.! I do it for fun mostly, you kinda have to want to do it for it to work? Just this year it cost my well over $2,000 & one very determined bear his life to keep them alive! Grey brew and other diseases are hard enough to ward against let alone a hungry bear that ate my electric fence!
Lol, I don't actually make anything off this but selling honey and Beeswax helps supplement the cost of keeping the Bees? The past few years I've sold off my Honey @ a local Farmers Market & I had a lady who bought all my wax to make delicious smelling candles but she recently passed so I thought I'd try a different approach this year? This has been made to Leo's specks, 60/40 paraffin/beeswax but I can do a 80/20 mix like Fralin uses, 70/30 is supposed to be optimal but I guess it all comes down to taste, no pun intended...
There's a lot of debate over whether the kind of wax used actually does anything to the tone & I don't have the answer? Personally I think beeswax gives you more of a "airy" P.A.F. tone but that could just be in my head? I can tell you that beeswax is harder & more dense than most other waxes & I'm sure that does something on some level but if nothing else your pickups are going to smell delicious, LOL!!!
Let me know how much you need & I'll give you a price, the wax itself will be fairly cheap but remember I have to mail it to you afterwards...
